| Evaluating Health Interventions Contributor(s): Ovretveit, John (Author), Cvretveit, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 033519964X ISBN-13: 9780335199648 Publisher: Open University Press OUR PRICE: $56.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Reference - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.106 |
| LCCN: 97008733 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.8" W x 9.6" (1.42 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A simple but not simplistic overview of the range of approaches to evaluation. For health practitioners, managers and policy advisers who need to use or conduct an evaluation but who may be confused by the variety of approaches. The book is also useful to disciplinary-based researchers who need to know about the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to evaluation, and some of the practical pitfalls and politics of evaluation. It describes principles, concepts and methods for evaluating health treatments, services, policies and organizational interventions. The strengths of this book are its even-handed and accessible overview of the many different evaluation paradigms and methods. Its practical and multidisciplinary approach shows how to ensure that evaluation results in action. The author draws on his 17 years' experience as an evaluator and gives frameworks which explain the complexities of evaluation and which have been tried and tested in workshops and teaching. The reader will find this an invaluable overview and reference book for understanding the increasingly important role that evaluation is playing in everyday clinical, managerial and policymaking work. |