Health Program Planning and Evaluation

By L. Michele Issel

Subjects: Program Development, Program development--methods, Program evaluation--methods, Medical care, united states, Program development, Methods, Community health services--planning, Ra394.9 .i87 2018, Public health administration, Health promotion--planning, Health planning--methodology, 362.12068, 2017 g-905, Community health services--united states--planning, Community health services--evaluation, Health promotion--evaluation, Community health services--united states--evaluation, Community health services--organization & administration, Gezondheidszorg, Gezondheidscentra, Gezondheidsvoorlichting en -opvoeding, Wa 546 aa1, Evaluation, Santé, Services communautaires de, Public health, Community health services, Planning, Program evaluation, Santé publique, Program Evaluation, Health planning--methods, Health promotion, Methodology, Public health, united states, Health planning, Planification, Organization & administration, Openbare gezondheidszorg

Description: In this revision of Health Program Planning and Evaluation, author L. Michele Issel carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. The text includes a variety of practical tools and concepts necessary to develop and evaluate health programs, presenting them in a language understandable to both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator. The third edition reflects then major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout. Contemporary topics such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, information systems and web-based technology, and global health planning and evaluation are newly covered in this edition.