Evaluation Fundamentals: Guiding Health Programs, Research, and Policy
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).
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