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<p><P>As more and more money is spent developing programs and services to solve health problems, how can one know if a specific health program works or what it would take to improve it? Aimed at addressing this issue, The Practice of Health Program Evaluation provides readers with the methods to evaluate health programs and the expertise to navigate the political terrain so as to work more effectively with decision makers and other groups. To convey these principles, Grembowski uses the metaphor of evaluation being a three-act play with a variety of actors and interest groups, each having a role that involves entering and exiting the "stage" at different points in the evaluation process. </p></p> <h3>Booknews</h3> <p>This text for graduate students in health administration and related health professions presents major concepts, methods, and issues of evaluating health programs, and explains how to navigate the political terrain so as to work more effectively with decision makers and other groups when developing evaluation questions. Covers methods for selecting among evaluation designs, and discusses the use of answers by decision makers, looking at methods for developing
- Author
- Grembowski, David E.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780761918462
- Subjects
- Medical, Management, Nursing
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