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From: "Dennis Raphael" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: October 19, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: free WHO book on Health Promotion Evaluation!
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http://www.who.dk/docpub/documents/hltprom.htm#Evaluation%20in%20health%20promoti
on
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> Evaluation in health promotion
> Principles and perspectives
>
> Edited by Irving Rootman, Michael Goodstadt, Brian Hyndman, David
> V. McQueen,
> Louise Potvin, Jane Springett and Erio Ziglio
>
> WHO Regional Publications
> European Series, No. 92
> 2001, xxvi + 533 pages
> ISBN 92 890 1359 1
> Sw.fr. 122.-
> Order No. 1310092
>
> Policy-makers, professionals of all kinds and the general public
> increasingly recognize social and economic factors as
> important determinants of health. Because health promotion
> approaches address these factors, they can play an
> increasingly valuable role in protecting and improving health. At
> the same time, funding sources increasingly demand
> evidence that initiatives give value for money. Health promotion
> initiatives need effective evaluation to realize their
> potential: both to prove their value as investments and to
increase
> their effectiveness in achieving their aims.
>
> To help meet this need, the WHO European Working Group on Health
> Promotion Evaluation examined the current range
> of qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods to provide
> guidance to policy-makers and practitioners. This book is
> the result. It comprises an extensive compilation and discussion
of
> the theory, methodologies and practice of evaluating
> health promotion initiatives in Europe and the Americas. The book
> takes three perspectives in examining the issues. It
> includes a retrospective examination of the evolution of health
> promotion evaluation. This provides the context for
> assessing and understanding the current state of evaluations of
> initiatives addressing settings, policies and systems for
> promoting health. Finally, the chapter authors and the Working
> group as a whole make many recommendations for
> improvement that provide a look into the future.
>
> This book shows how a health promotion approach offers a
> comprehensive framework for planning and implementing
> interventions that can effectively address today's major
> health-related problems. The authors describe how good
> evaluations assist initiatives in achieving their goals, provide a
> wealth of guidance on how to undertake them and call for
> greater investment in the evaluation of health promotion. The
> authors hope that their work will stimulate policy-makers
> and practitioners to invest in and undertake good evaluation for
> good health promotion. This is their commitment; they
> hope that readers share it.
>
> How to order
>
> Read it on-line (PDF):
>
> Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Foreword, Contributors, Contents
> Part 1. Introduction and framework
> Part 2. Perspectives
> Part 3. Settings
> Part 4. Policies and systems
> Part 5. Synthesis and conclusion
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