Is your population treatment plan working?

Question 1

Define a project

Answer 1

activities to achieve objections for a group of people in a place, relating to a particular health target, using specific strategy within a given budget and time

Question 2

Define programmes

Answer 2

organised sets of projects or services concerned with a particular sector geographic region

Question 3

What is the basic logic of a project

Answer 3

Inputs
processes
outputs
outcomes
impacts
efficiency
effectiveness

Question 4

What do processes do

Answer 4

Transform inputs to outputs

Question 5

What is output measured by

Answer 5

If a service is effective-delivers outputs in accordance with objectives

Question 6

What are outcomes measured by

Answer 6

Short term-what is learned from participating

and meduim term effects- changes in what can be done following the change

Question 7

How are impacts defined

Answer 7

Economic, social, organizational, environmental, intended or unintented

Question 8

What is the difference between monitoring and evaluating

Answer 8

Monitoring is observation following the activites and what is happening compared to what is expected to happen, evaluation is assessment of achievement against preset criteria.

Question 9

Define an evaluation

Answer 9

Gathering reliable and valid information in a systematic way by making comparison

Question 10

What is the purpose of a evaluation

Answer 10

See if goals have been met
making informed decisions
understanding the causal mechanisms

Question 11

What is the difference between a formative and summative evaluation

Answer 11

Formative= improves program, evalutes things other than outcome (processes), makes sure that things go to plan
Summative= program accountability, to what degree a program has achieved its desired outcomes

Question 12

What types of evaluation can be done along a timeline

Answer 12

Needs
Process
Outcome
Impact

Question 13

What are the steps in evaluation of interventions

Answer 13

1-formulating question and scope
2-define measurable outcome
3-develop evaluation methods and questions
4-collect credible evidence
5-analyze and turn into data
6-develop a conclusion and recommendations
involve stakeholder and feedback to them at the end

Question 14

What are the qualities of indicators (of outcome)

Answer 14

Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time related

Question 15

What quntatitive data sources can be used to assess outcome

Answer 15

Existing data review
observation
survery/questionaires
costs or financial analysis

Question 16

What qualitive data can be used

Answer 16

document analysis
observation
interviewing
group based data collection

Question 17

Who can conduct an evaluation

Answer 17

internal-self

external-

Question 18

What are the challenges to evaluating interventions

Answer 18

Internal validity

and external validity

Question 19

What is internal valiity

Answer 19

how valid are the results o the evaluation itself

affected by: selevtion bias, drop-outs, inter-investigator variance, instrumentation, study tools, methods

Question 20

What is external validity

Answer 20

Abiltiy to generate the results of the community trial to a target population
affected by- limited samples, multiple treament interference, operational definitions or patients, interventions, timing