Evaluation in health promotion : principles and perspectives / / edited by Irving Rootman [and six others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780598903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, Denmark : , : World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, , 2001; ©2001
• ISBN: 1-280-06082-4; 9786610060825; 0-585-47375-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (561 p.)
• Collana: WHO Regional Publications, European Series, , 0378-2255 ; ; Number 92
• Disciplina: 613
• Soggetti: Health promotion; Health education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword; WHO European Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation; Contributors; Contents; Part 1 Introduction and framework; Introduction to the book; 1 A framework for health promotion evaluation; Part 2 Perspectives; Introduction; 2 Beyond process and outcome evaluation: a comprehensive approach for evaluating health promotion programmes; 3 What counts as evidence: issues and debates; 4 Participatory approaches to evaluation in health promotion; 5 Transformative alliance between qualitative and quantitative approaches in health promotion research; 6 Evaluation of quality- of- life initiatives in health promotion 7 Economic evaluation of health promotion; 8 Health promotion: towards a quality assurance framework; 9 Investigating policy networks for health: theory and method in a larger organizational perspective; Part 3 Settings; Introduction; 10 Evaluating community health promotion programmes; 11 Evaluating community initiatives for health and development; 12 Evaluating health promotion in schools: reflections; 13 Evaluating health promotion programmes in the workplace; 14 Evaluation in urban settings: the challenge of Healthy Cities; Part 4 Policies and systems Introduction; 15 Evaluating healthy public policies in community and regional contexts; 16 Evaluation of health promotion policies: tracking a moving target; 17 Evaluation of countrywide health promotion policies: the Canadian experience; 18 Health impact assessment as a tool for health promotion and population health; 19 Social capital: evaluation implications for community health promotion; 20 Case study: the Canadian Heart Health Initiative; 21 Issues in evaluating mass- media health communication campaigns; 22 Investment for health: developing a multifaceted appraisal approach Part 5 Synthesis and conclusion; 23 Evaluation in health promotion: synthesis and recommendations