Evidence-Based Public Health
By Unknown Author.
Description
There are at least three ways in which a public health program or policy may not reach stated goals for success:1) Choosing an intervention approach whose effectiveness is not established in the scientific literature;2) Selecting a potentially effective program or policy yet achieving only weak, incomplete implementation or "reach," thereby failing to attain objectives; 3) Conducting an inadequate or incorrect evaluation that results in a lack of generalizable knowledge on the effectiveness of a program or policy; and4) Paying inadequate attention to adapting an intervention to th...
ISBN(s)
0195397894, 9780195397895
