Evaluation Of Interventions Flashcards
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Why evaluate?
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- Improve efficiency and cost of delivery
- To understand appropriateness qnd relevance
- Verify impact of program, reaching its objectives and goals?
- Can it be reused by others?
2
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Evaluation principles 3
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- Utility = useful to others
- Impartiability = absence of bias
- Quality (methods) = credibility, evidence based
3
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Objectives of FORMATIVE
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- Explore target audience
- Explore factors that will contribue to maximising the success of the proposed service
- Consulted with stakeholders
4
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Process evaluations
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Monitors the implemented program and assesses the extent of program delivery
What was delivered and was it as intended?
5
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Impact and outcome evaluations
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What is the programs impact (short term and long term effectiveness
6
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Health policy decisions.. 3
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- Regulate (who gets to do what)
2 fund (who gets what)
- Provide services (who has access to what?)
7
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What services do the state gov. Fund?
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- Manage hospital services
- Ambulance services
- Prevention and immunisation
- Community health
- Data information dissemination (ABSS)
8
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What is the policy cycle?
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No start, no end
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- Agenda setting
(Who sets the agenda? >research, new knowledge, changing budgets, media, influences) - Policy formulation
= all social policy is aimed at behavioural change (who’s behaviour? HCP, HC-INDUSTRY, HC,CONSUMERS, broader poluation, politicians) - Legitimation
= funding, parliamentary approval. - Implementation
= reliant on convincing all stakeholders in real world - Evaluation
- Maintenance, succession, termination
(Anything changed? Repeat on cycle)
9
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Policy formation
How can behavioural change be assured?
Sticks, carrots, inabilors and knowledge
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- Sticks = regulations or measures undertaken by gov. to influence ppl using mandated rules (to regulate behaviours of corporations/ ppl)
- Carrots
- Sermons = educating people (mass media campaigns)
- Enabilors =capacity building, making it happen
