The Practice of Health Program Evaluation.

Grembowski, David.

ISBN 10: 1483376370 / ISBN 13: 9781483376370

Published by Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2016

About this Item

Paperback small quarto, as new condition, tables, figures, minimal edgewear. 324 pp. David Grembowski reflects on the latest developments in health program evaluation. He describes effective methods for evaluating health programs and offers expert guidance for collaborating with stakeholders involved in the process. The author explores evaluation as a three-act play. Act I shows evaluators how to work with decision makers and other groups to identify the questions they want answered. Act II covers selecting appropriate evaluation designs to reveal insight about the program's impacts, cost-effectiveness, and implementation. Act III discusses making use of the findings. Packed with relevant examples and detailed explanations, the book fully prepares readers to apply research methods in the practice of health program evaluation.The author is professor of health services, University of Washington. (Originally published, 2001. This copy; Second edition, 2015.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Practice of Health Program Evaluation.
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483376370
• ISBN 13: 9781483376370
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Seller catalogs:
  • HEALTH

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Synopsis

Reflecting the latest developments in the field, the Second Edition provides readers with effective methods for evaluating health programs, policies, and health care systems, offering expert guidance for collaborating with stakeholders involved in the process. Author David Grembowski explores evaluation as a three-act play: Act I shows evaluators how to work with decision makers and other groups to identify the questions they want answered; Act II covers selecting appropriate evaluation designs and methods to answer the questions and reveal insights about the program’s impacts, cost-effectiveness, and implementation; and Act III discusses making use of the findings. Packed with relevant examples and detailed explanations, the book offers a step-by-step approach that fully prepares readers to apply research methods in the practice of health program evaluation. 

About the Author

David Grembowski, Ph.D., M.A., is a professor in the Department of Health Ser- vices in the School of Public Health and the Department of Oral Health Sciences in the School of Dentistry, and adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Washington. He has taught health program evaluation to graduate students for more than twenty years. His evaluation interests are prevention, the performance of health programs and health care systems, survey research methods, and the social determinants of population health. His other work has examined efforts to improve quality by increasing access to care in integrated delivery systems; pharmacy outreach to provide statins preventively to patients with diabetes; managed care and physician referrals; managed care and patient-physician relationships and physician job satisfaction; cost-effectiveness of preventive services for older adults; cost-sharing and seeing out-of-network physicians; social gradients in oral health; local health department spending and racial/ethnic disparities in mortality rates; fluoridation effects on oral health and dental demand; financial incentives and dentist adoption of preventive technologies; effects of dental insurance on dental demand; and the link between mother and child access to dental care.