Program Planning and Evaluation
Select and answer one of the following questions
At each level of the public health pyramid, identify at least two factors that can affect the acquisition of informed consent from those involved in providing evaluation data about a health program.
What might be some effective strategies to prevent the various misuses of evaluations that were described?
In what ways might evidence-based practice (of any of the health disciplines) benefit from a meta-evaluation of programs to address a given health problem?
Using evaluation findings as part of feedback loops to improve or sustain health programs is predicated on a set of assumptions about humans and decision makers. What might be some of the assumptions that underlie this perspective?