Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Promo,on
Evalua,on
Impact Evalua4on
Immediate eect
Outcome Evalua4on
Longer term, subsequent eect on
health outcome
Judging HP
Eec4veness the extent to which aims and
objec,ves are met
Appropriateness the relevance of the
interven,on to needs
Acceptability whether it is carried out in a
sensi,ve way
Eciency whether ,me, money and
resources are well spent, given the benets
Equity equal provision for equal need
Program Planning & Evalua,on
Cycle Checkpoints
Need Outcome
Assessment Evalua,on
Program Impact
Planning Evalua,on
Program Process
Evalua,on Evaluability
Implementa,o
Assessment
n
Program
redesign &
reimplementa
,on
Importance of Evalua,ng HP
Program
Quan,ta,ve
Qualita,ve
Ethical
Issues
Challenges in Evalua,ng
lack of exper,se
limited ,me and/or resources in the team or
with the individual
a belief that the program will be successful
without any evidence
no recogni,on of the benets of evalua,on
fear that a poor evalua,on will not support
the programs con,nua,on
Challenges in Evalua,ng
the poli,cs of evalua,on for example who
wants to know how well the program has
been implemented
no clarity about the purpose of evalua,on
the type of program evalua,on selected is
some,mes inappropriate
the costs of external evaluators and the
percep,on that evalua,on is a specialized
type of research that can only be undertaken
by experts.
Barriers of Evalua,on
Controversy about the nature of evidence in
health promo,on
The dicul,es of proving eec,veness
The need for wider acceptance of alterna,ve
techniques for evalua,ng evidence
The strain of working within a medical model
of health
South and Tilford (2000)
Awareness of the Limita,ons
The poli4cs of evalua4on
number of poli,cal and/or philosophical issues
need to be considered
supports or opposes the program
acknowledge that the professed program
interven,on goals (such as behavioral or policy
changes)
Funding the evalua4on
should budget for the evalua,on at the program
planning stage
At least 10% of the program cost