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Evaluating Public and Community Health Programs
Evaluating Public and Community Health Programs combines an introduction to public and community health program evaluation with a detailed survey of methods in community assessment, planning, program design, quantitative and qualitative data collection, data analysis, and reporting of findings. The book presents an approach built on the two primary evaluation frameworks that are most common in public and community health: the Donaldson three-step program theory ?driven evaluation model and CDC?s six-step Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health. rnrnrnEvaluation is the cornerstone of program improvement and must be carefully planned and excuted to be effective. It helps make the task of assessing the appropriateness of a public health intervention or the success of a program or policy explixit by using appropriarite research methods. In evaluation a plan is developed to assess the achievement of program objectives. The plan states the standards againts which the intervention will be assessed, the scope of the evaluation, and appropriate tools and approach for data collection and analysis.rn
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