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Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research

Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research

Zulmira M. Hartz
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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 for a volume that is both diverse in scope and unified in purpose. The booka s examplesa "representing robust theoretical and practical literatures as well as initiatives from Rio de Janeiro to American Indian communitiesa "explain why health promotion evaluation projects require different guidelines from mainstream evaluative work. The editors identify core humanitarian principles associated with health promotion , while chapters highlight challenges that must be mastered to keep these principles and scientific objectives in sync, including: Building health promotion values into evaluation research projects. Expanding the use of evaluation in health promotion. Developing meaningful evaluation questions. Distinguishing between community-based participation research and evaluation-based participation. Evaluating specifically for equity. Designing initiatives to foster lasting social change. The applied knowledge in Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research can bring the goals of intervention into sharper focus for practitioners, evaluators, and decision-makers and facilitate communication on all sidesa "necessary steps to progress from study findings to real-world action.
Pages
334
Format
ebook
Publisher
Springer New York
Release
February 03, 2009
ISBN
1281850942
ISBN 13
9781281850942

Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research

Zulmira M. Hartz
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 for a volume that is both diverse in scope and unified in purpose. The booka s examplesa "representing robust theoretical and practical literatures as well as initiatives from Rio de Janeiro to American Indian communitiesa "explain why health promotion evaluation projects require different guidelines from mainstream evaluative work. The editors identify core humanitarian principles associated with health promotion , while chapters highlight challenges that must be mastered to keep these principles and scientific objectives in sync, including: Building health promotion values into evaluation research projects. Expanding the use of evaluation in health promotion. Developing meaningful evaluation questions. Distinguishing between community-based participation research and evaluation-based participation. Evaluating specifically for equity. Designing initiatives to foster lasting social change. The applied knowledge in Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research can bring the goals of intervention into sharper focus for practitioners, evaluators, and decision-makers and facilitate communication on all sidesa "necessary steps to progress from study findings to real-world action.
Pages
334
Format
ebook
Publisher
Springer New York
Release
February 03, 2009
ISBN
1281850942
ISBN 13
9781281850942

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