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Program Evaluation for Health Professionals: What It Is, What It Isn't and How to Do It
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol.19, pp.1-11
2020
Abstract
Health professionals deliver a range of health services to individuals and communities. The evaluation of these services is an important component of these programs and health professionals should have the requisite knowledge, attributes, and skills to evaluate the impact of the services they provide. However, health professionals are seldom adequately prepared by their training or work experience to do this well. In this article we provide a suitable framework and guidance to enable health professionals to appropriately undertake useful program evaluation. We introduce and discuss "Easy Evaluation" and provide guidelines for its implementation. The framework presented distinguishes program evaluation from research and encourages health professionals to apply an evaluative lens in order that value judgements about the merit, worth, and significance of programs can be made. Examples from our evaluation practice are drawn on to illustrate how program evaluation can be used across the health care spectrum.
Details
- Title
- Program Evaluation for Health Professionals: What It Is, What It Isn't and How to Do It
- Authors
- Jeffery Adams (Corresponding Author) - Massey UniversityStephen Neville - Auckland University of Technology
- Publication details
- International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol.19, pp.1-11
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1177/1609406920964345
- ISSN
- 1609-4069
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2020. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Grant note
- The development of Easy Evaluation and the teaching of it to the public health workforce is funded by the Ministry of Health, New Zealand.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991111655802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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