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Evaluation Fundamentals Guiding Health Programs Research and Policy
Author: Arlene Fink

"This volume is. . . a step-by-step guide for designing, implementing and assessing health care programs; the scientific process revisited with health care examples. To its credit, it is a very clear step-by-step guide. . . . In addition, the book offers information. . . on topics not found in the typical research or evaluation text, such as the... more » use of expert panels, cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness, and meta-analysis." --Molly Engle in Evaluation Practice "Evaluation Fundamentals does a remarkably fine job of summarizing the major research designs, issues, and problems associated with evaluation of medical intervention programs. This is one of the clearest, most useful handbooks on the subject. It provides clear explanations, free of needless jargon, and excellent examples. It is a useful refresher . . . and will be of great service to people getting started in the evaluation process." --W. D. Phillips, Trenton State College "This is recommended for program evaluators in health promotion and education, especially those without prior evaluation training; students and faculty in courses with content or topics in public health, health program policy, health services research, and program evaluation; health program planners and administrators; health policymakers; funders of health programs; medical educators; and patient educators. . . . If you want a primer for someone who knows very little about evaluation but should, this book is a good way to get them started." --The Art of Health Promotion "As I expected, Arlene Fink has created a wonderful teaching tool that will help many investigators. The book catches her own spirited teaching style. Since so many scientists are being asked to evaluate programs and research projects with little training in the area, this book fulfills an important need. The introductory chapter alone is a tour-de-force that should be read by everyone who expects to evaluate a program or expects to have his/her own program evaluated. I think this book?s style--a sophisticated primer--greatly enhances its content. The content is thorough and accurate, and its format makes it considerably friendlier than if it had been organized as a standard reference text. The content assures that readers can learn what they need to; the style assures that they will learn. The varied examples, useful forms, and well-chosen examples are terrific enhancements." --Mark H. Beers, M.D., Associate Editor, The Merck Manuals "I've read Dr. Fink?s book with a great deal of interest and attention. She presents an introduction to the problems of program evaluation in health, education and related fields, that is complete, superbly organized, clearly and enjoyably presented, a book that can serve as a template by which evaluation studies might be modeled." --Helena Chmura Kraemer, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University Medical Center "Fink presents in a clear and easy-to-follow style a step-by-step approach to program evaluation from reviewing the initial program design to presenting the final report. The frequent use of "'real-life"' examples illustrates the importance and role of program evaluation for students, researchers, policymakers, and funding agencies interested in health care. In the current political climate, where health care reform is imminent, this book may play a vital role in helping policymakers distinguish those programs that work from those that don?t." --Steven J. Bernstein, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center Over the past decade, program evaluation in health settings has become increasingly sophisticated due to advances in research methods and technology. However, there hasn?t been a new text in the field to give evaluators the special skills they need to define and measure health care issues. Until now. Through the use of numerous examples and excerpts from published evaluations, Evaluation Fundamentals covers such topics as the use of expert panels to set standards of program effectiveness, how to do literature searches (including electronic data bases), uses of epidemiological data and vital statistics in program evaluation, meta-analysis, power analysis, health policy, clinical scenarios, data management, qualitative evaluation methods (including participatory evaluations), cost benefits and cost effectiveness, and how to prepare a report and do an oral presentation. Evaluation Fundamentals also includes a number of devices to aid the reader. Each chapter opens with an overview and a reader?s guide, main concepts within the chapters are accompanied by one or more illustrations, and each chapter ends with a summary, exercises, and a suggested readings list (answers to the exercises are provided at the end of the book). In addition, step-by-step guidelines are given for the use of expert panels, choosing a data source, and conducting a meta-analysis. Forms are also offered for relating evaluation questions and their associated standards, for designing and justifying measures, for selecting and justifying data analytic methods, and for reviewing an evaluation. Evaluation Fundamentals is a "must read" for program evaluators in health and education, and students and faculty in public health, public policy, health services research, or anyone who plans to do research in a health care setting or a health care issue.

ISBN-13: 9780803948389
ISBN-10: 0803948387
Publication Date: 8/9/1993
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
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