Health program planning and evaluation : a practical, systematic approach for community health / L. Michele Issel, Rebecca Wells, and Mollie Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: The context of health program development -- Context of health program development and evaluation -- Relevance of diversity and disparities to health programs -- Section II: Defining the health problem -- Community health assessment for program planning -- Characterizing and defining the health problem -- Section III: Health program development and planning -- Program theory and interventions revealed -- Program objectives and setting targets -- Section IV: Implementing and monitoring the health program -- Process theory for program implementation -- Monitoring implementation through budgets and information systems -- Implementation evaluation: measuring inputs and outputs -- Program quality and fidelity: managerial and contextual considerations -- Section V: Outcome and impact evaluation of health programs -- Planning the intervention effect evaluations -- Choosing designs for effect evaluations -- Sampling designs and data sources for effect evaluations -- Quantitative data analysis and interpretation -- Qualitative methods for planning and evaluation -- Section VI: Additional considerations for evaluators -- Program evaluators' responsibilities.

"This text has become a classic, step-by-step walkthrough of the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful public health and health promotion programs. The aim of the text is to assist public health professionals to become not only competent health program planners and evaluators but also savvy consumers of evaluation reports and to be able to use evaluation consultants. The text includes a variety of practical tools and concepts necessary to develop and evaluate health programs, presenting them in language understandable to both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator. The book maintains a public health focus to demonstrate how health programs can target different levels of a population, different determinants of a health problem, and different strategies and interventions to address a health problem. The text also offers examples of health programs and references to pique the interests of the diverse students and practicing professionals who constitute multidisciplinary program teams - relevant to health administrators, medical social workers, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists, public health professionals, and physicians"-- Provided by publisher.