The lead evaluator should be willing and able to draw out and reconcile differences in values and standards among stakeholders and to work with knowledgeable stakeholder representatives in designing and conducting the evaluation. Seek additional evaluation expertise in programs within the health department, through external partners e.
You can also use outside consultants as volunteers, advisory panel members, or contractors. External consultants can provide high levels of evaluation expertise from an objective point of view. Important factors to consider when selecting consultants are their level of professional training, experience, and ability to meet your needs. Be sure to check all references carefully before you enter into a contract with any consultant. To generate discussion around evaluation planning and implementation, several states have formed evaluation advisory panels.
Advisory panels typically generate input from local, regional, or national experts otherwise difficult to access. Such an advisory panel will lend credibility to your efforts and prove useful in cultivating widespread support for evaluation activities. Evaluation team members should clearly define their respective roles. Informal consensus may be enough; others prefer a written agreement that describes who will conduct the evaluation and assigns specific roles and responsibilities to individual team members.
Either way, the team must clarify and reach consensus on the:. This manual is organized by the six steps of the CDC Framework. Each chapter will introduce the key questions to be answered in that step, approaches to answering those questions, and how the four evaluation standards might influence your approach. The main points are illustrated with one or more public health examples that are composites inspired by actual work being done by CDC and states and localities.
Together, they build a house over a multi-week period. At the end of the construction period, the home is sold to the family using a no-interest loan. Lead poisoning is the most widespread environmental hazard facing young children, especially in older inner-city areas. Even at low levels, elevated blood lead levels EBLL have been associated with reduced intelligence, medical problems, and developmental problems. The main sources of lead poisoning in children are paint and dust in older homes with lead-based paint.
Public health programs address the problem through a combination of primary and secondary prevention efforts. A typical secondary prevention program at the local level does outreach and screening of high-risk children, identifying those with EBLL, assessing their environments for sources of lead, and case managing both their medical treatment and environmental corrections. However, these programs must rely on others to accomplish the actual medical treatment and the reduction of lead in the home environment.
A common initiative of state immunization programs is comprehensive provider education programs to train and motivate private providers to provide more immunizations. A typical program includes a newsletter distributed three times per year to update private providers on new developments and changes in policy, and provide a brief education on various immunization topics; immunization trainings held around the state conducted by teams of state program staff and physician educators on general immunization topics and the immunization registry; a Provider Tool Kit on how to increase immunization rates in their practice; training of nursing staff in local health departments who then conduct immunization presentations in individual private provider clinics; and presentations on immunization topics by physician peer educators at physician grand rounds and state conferences.
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The PRC program is a national network of 24 academic research centers committed to prevention research and the ability to translate that research into programs and policies.
The centers work with state health departments and members of their communities to develop and evaluate state and local interventions that address the leading causes of death and disability in the nation. Additional information on the PRCs is available at www. While inspired by real CDC and community programs, they are not intended to reflect the current. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Section Navigation.
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Evaluation is also essential to ensure that limited resources are utilized most efficiently for the greatest possible impact. Still need convincing? Here are five reasons why evaluation matters to your project and how to get it done.
You learn how to optimize for success and discover the story behind the results. During the planning phase, the evaluation focuses on understanding how to optimally design the project to best meet its goals. During the implementation phase, the evaluation seeks to understand how the initiative is taking shape, where there is early progress and how to maximize the ongoing success of the project.
At the close of a project, the evaluation assesses the extent to which project aims were met and identifies circumstances that led to both high and low levels of success.
Evaluation also probes throughout for important unintended consequences of the work e. All of this together helps to tell the full project story. Evaluation paves the way to project improvements. Decisions to Communicate Program Strategy and Value Decide to incorporate evaluation results data into the overall communication effort, such as to support the organization's "brand" messaging and its communication of value proposition to appropriators, stakeholders, and others.
Operational Decisions Decide how best to improve program operations e. Determine if staffing levels need to be changed based on current and anticipated mission requirements, and if so how?
EERE uses several types of evaluation to quantify impacts, assess progress, and promote improvement. In general, different types of evaluation are carried out over different parts of a program's life cycle.
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