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Subject: free WHO book on Health Promotion Evaluation!


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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
>