Evaluating health promotion : practice and methods / edited by Margaret Thorogood and Yolande Coombes.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: 176p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780192631695 (pbk.) :
- 0192631691 (acidfree paper)
- 613.068 THO
- HV97
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Includes bibliographical references.
Pt. 1. Overview. Introduction / Yolande Coombes, Margaret Thorogood -- Historical and policy approaches to the evaluation of health promotion / Virginia Berridge -- pt. 2. Methods of evaluation. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation / Yolanda Coombes -- Evaluating interventions-experimental study designs in health promotion / Margaret Thorogood, Annie Britton -- The role of focus groups in evaluation / Patrick Branigan, Kirstin Mitchell -- Economic evaluation of health promotion programmes / David Wonderling, Jonathan Karnon -- Use of process evaluation during project implementation : experience from the CHAPS project for gay men / William Stewart -- Evaluating the use of public health risk factor simulation models / Bhash Naidoo -- pt. 4. Evaluation in practice. Evaluating mass media approaches / Kaye Wellings, Wendy Macdowall -- Evaluating community development initiatives in health promotion / Rachel Jewkes -- Evaluation of health promotion in clinical settings / Dominique Florin, Sarah Basham -- Evaluating the dissemination of health promotion research / Gillian Lewando-Hundt, Salah Al-Zaroo -- Conclusions-integrating methods for practice / Margaret Thorogood, Yolanda Coombes.
This practical guide for practitioners of health promotion and public health describes methods by which health promotion can be evaluated. With examples given, it should help practitioners design and implement appropriate and informative evaluations.