Health promotion evaluation practices in the Americas
Subtitle: values and research
By: Louise Potvin, David V. McQueen, editors ; with Mary Hall ... [et al.].
Contributors: Potvin, Louise.; McQueen, David V.; Hall, Mary
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780387797328; 9780387797335
Subjects: Health promotion -- America -- Evaluation; Health Promotion -- standards -- Americas; Evaluation Studies as Topic -- Americas; Program Evaluation -- methods -- Americas
Description: "More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas cogently demonstrates that scientific rigor and the goals of health promotion are less in conflict than commonly thought, synthesizing multiple traditions from countries throughout North, Central, and South America (and across the developed-to-developing-world continuum) for a volume that is both diverse in scope and unified in purpose." "The book s examples - representing robust theoretical and practical literatures as well as initiatives from Rio de Janeiro to American Indian communities - explain why health promotion evaluation projects require different guidelines from mainstream evaluative work. The editors identify core humanitarian principles associated with health promotion (participation, empowerment, equity, sustainability, intersectoral action, multistrategy, and contextualism), while chapters highlight challenges that must be mastered to keep these principles and scientific objectives in sync."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.