Logistics Reorganization and Management of the Ambulatory Pharmacy of a Local Health Unit in Portugal
Publication date: Available online 19 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Catarina Castro, Teresa Pereira, J.C. Sá, Gilberto SantosAbstractThe Hospital Pharmacy of a Local Health Unit (LHU) in greater Oporto plays a major role in the community. In addition to providing medicines to the entire Internal Unit, it has created a service called "Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy", which allows continued hospital treatments at home, in a more comfortable and familiar environment. This is mostly due uderfunding which has hindered recruitment of health professionals as well a growing concern for the comfort o...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Exploring the Unmet Needs for Creating an Enabling Environment for Nurturing Care to Promote Migrant Child Health in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: A Theory-guided Community-based Participatory Action Research
Publication date: Available online 19 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Hyerang Kim, Soonyoung Shon, Hyunsook ShinAbstractEmpirical evidence on community-driven child health promotion programs in disadvantaged migrant populations is limited despite various promotional strategies. Therefore, we implemented a developmental process to shape child health interventions using theory-guided community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) in a migrant community in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan between 2015 and 2019.The collaborative and iterative CBPAR process was conducted through participatory workshops ...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
What do we know about evaluator education? A review of peer-reviewed publications (1978–2018)
This article reviews peer-reviewed writings on evaluator education from 1978 to 2018. Despite the topic’s presumed importance, scholars to date have not extensively addressed it in peer-reviewed publications. The article first describes the methods used to select articles and the conceptual framework for their analysis. It then presents the content of 64 articles selected for review, divided into two major categories: research studies, and reflective case narratives. We further divide research studies into program directories and empirical studies; the case narratives provide information on programs, curriculum, and inst...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Understanding the dynamic interinfluences of implementation processes: An illustration by multiple case studies
This study examines the processes involved in the implementation of Check & Connect (C&C), a well-established targeted dropout prevention program validated in several countries that aims at promoting the development of a significant relationship between at-risk students and a mentor as a way to prevent school dropout.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 mentors and coordinators directly involved in C&C implementation. Analyses were conducted in two subsequent steps: thematic analyses first helped identify implementation processes described by respondents, and then synthetic case studies allowed us to build the...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
What are the characteristics of the champion that influence the implementation of quality improvement programs?
ConclusionsIt is important to support and encourage champions in the health care systems in developing countries to master and exhibit those qualities and characteristics in order to lead a team for the successful implementation of quality improvement initiatives in the health facilities. More research is needed to understand how to better articulate those qualities in the context of the Haitian health care system. (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Value for Money: A Utilization-focused Approach to Extending the Foundation and Contribution of Economic Evaluation
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Christina Peterson, Gary SkolitsAbstractValue for Money (VfM) is an evaluative question about the merit, worth, and significance of resource use in social programs. Although VfM is a critical component of evidence-based programming, it is often overlooked or avoided by evaluators and decision-makers. A framework for evaluating VfM across the dimensions of economy, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity has emerged in response to limitations of traditional economic evaluation. This framework for assessing VfM integrates metho...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Matching anonymous participants in longitudinal research on sensitive topics: Challenges and recommendations
This study provides recommendations for preventing matching problems in longitudinal studies, a process for rectifying matching issues and a critique of studies that do not address issues of matching-related sample bias in their final analytic sample. (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluating innovation development among Brazilian micro and small businesses in view of management level: insights from the Local Innovation Agents Program
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Hugo Henrique Roth Cardoso, Adriana Dantas Gonçalves, Gustavo Dambiski Gomes de Carvalho, Hélio Gomes de CarvalhoAbstractThis research aims to analyze management and innovation patterns among micro and small businesses (MSBs) that participated during 2015-2016 in the Local Innovation Agents (LIA) Program from the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE). Complemented by factor analyses, two-step cluster analysis was applied on 6674 MSBs’ management dimensions to identify group patterns and statistical...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
An assessment of a municipal physical activity programme for seniors based on the EFQM model: integrating the views of internal and external stakeholders
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Patrícia Moura e Sá, Carolina FernandesAbstractThe growing proportion of senior citizens and the importance of encouraging active well-ageing behaviours explain the increasing efforts carried out by governments to develop exercise programmes particularly targeted to this group. The complexity associated with the running of these programmes and the resources committed make their quality assessment essential. The aim of the current paper is to validate and refine the use of the EFQM model in this context. A programme of a m...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Participatory Analytic Hierarchy Process for resource allocation in agricultural development projects
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Pietro De Marinis, Guido Sali (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Exploring linkages between organisational culture and gender equality work—An ethnography of a multi-national engineering company
This article explores linkages between organisation-specific cultural narratives and gender-equality programme planning through the lens of the ‘historicity’ concept. The article argues that to fully understand problem definitions, programme design and organisational change processes related to gender equality, scholars and practitioners cannot focus one-sidedly on expected outcomes and effects. We need to factor in organisational narratives as well, because gender equality actors never arrive at their work as ‘tabulae rasae’. A community of actors always draws on shared dispositions that give sense, direction and ...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Developing a strategy map for forensic accounting with fraud risk management: An integrated balanced scorecard-based decision model
This study thus presents an integrated methodology for forensic accounting implementation to improve the identification of the strategy map relationship between the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)-based perspective and criteria, by combining multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) with the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP) techniques. The results have implications for corporate decision-makers to effectively fulfil corporate governance quality assurance and anti-fraud through a forensic accounting strategy map illustration. From the evaluation and planning perspectiv...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Latent Class Analysis Risk Profiles: An Effective Method to Predict a First Re-Report of Maltreatment?
Publication date: Available online 6 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): Hyunil Kim, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Patricia Kohl, Chien-jen Chiang, Brett Drake, Derek Brown, Tim McBride, Shenyang GuoAbstractRecurrence of child maltreatment is a significant concern causing substantial individual, family and societal cost. Variable-based approaches to identifying targets for intervention may not reflect the reality that families may experience multiple co-occurring risks. An alternative approach was tested using baseline data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) I and II to de...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Expanding Evaluator Competency Research: Exploring Competencies for Program Evaluation Using the Context of Non-formal Education
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Evaluation and Program PlanningAuthor(s): John Diaz, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, K.S.U. Jayaratne, Elsie AssanAbstractThe overlap of competencies between general program evaluation and specific contexts or content will always be reality because evaluators may need unique competencies to answer evaluation questions for particular contexts or content areas. Limited research exists that explores the essential competencies required by professionals who use evaluation as one part of their job portfolio, which leaves unanswered questions regarding the applicability of current e...
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Using network analysis to conduct a system-wide program evaluation within a university
ConclusionsThis study supports the use of network analysis in conducting systemic evaluations of programs offered at a university, complementing the work of ongoing, local-level program evaluations. (Source: Evaluation and Program Planning)
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning - February 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
