Planning and Evaluating PH Programs and Policy

Question 1

Needs Assessment/Identify problem

Answer 1

Establishes a framework for the project’s goals, objectives, methods, and evaluation

Question 2

Problem Statement

Answer 2

1. Setting established, 2. Group affected described (target population), 3. Numeric description of the problem, 4. Why it is relevant to health

Question 3

Types of evaluation

Answer 3

Formative, process, short term outcome, long term outcome (impact)

Question 4

Describe formative evaluation

Answer 4

(pretesting) Designed to assess strengths and weaknesses of materials or campaign strategies before implementation

Question 5

Process evaluation

Answer 5

How smoothly is the intervention carried out? Procedures and tasks involved in implementing a program, administrative and organizational aspects, task focused results that describe the output of the activity number of public inquires received as a result of a media campaign

Question 6

Process evaluation activity assessments

Answer 6

Numbers of health screenings, program attendance, and audience response

Question 7

Progress in attaining objectives monitored process evaluation

Answer 7

Periodic calculation of percentage of target audience aware, referred, participating

Question 8

Impact (long term outcome) evaluation

Answer 8

Most comprehensive, long range results, changes and improvements in health status, changes and improvement in dietary intake, difficult due to cost and clearly determining that intervention created the change