Planning and Evaluation of Health Promotion Flashcards
What are important NHS Scotland health topics? (12 points)
- Diet and obesity
- Alcohol
- Physical activity
- Gender base violence
- Mental health and well being
- Smoking
- Suicide
- Dementia
- Screening
- Drugs
- Immunisation
- Sexual health
Which groups of people is health promotion aimed at? (4 points)
- Early years
- Young people
- Adults in later life
- Adults in work
What are common settings for health promotion? (6 points)
- School
- Workplace
- Community
- Primary care
- Hospitals
- Prisons
What is the first phase in health promotion planning?
- An assessment of what a client or population group needs to enable them to become more health
This includes:
- Epidemiology
- What is currently available
- What the group would benefit from
- Information from literature searches, local reports, ‘grey literature’
What is involved in the planning framework of Ewles and Simnett 2003? (7 points)
- Identify needs & priorities
- Set aims & objectives
- Decide best ways to achieve the aims
- Identify resources
- Plan evaluation methods
- Set an action plan
- ACTION - implement your plan including your evaluation
What are ‘aims’?
Broad goals, objectives specific and define what participants achieve at the end of intervention
- Knowledge: Increase in levels
- Affective: change in attitudes,/beliefs
- Behaviours: acquisition of new skills/competencies
What does the SMART acronym for guide to setting useful objective stand for?
Specific - precise
Measurable - easily assessed
Appropriate - needs of individual/group
Realistic - achievable yet challenging
Time-related - timescale to assess changes
Evaluation is an integral aspect of all planned health promotion. What does this cover? (3 points)
- Process
- Impact
- Outcome
What does an evaluation need to assess?
Results, determine whether objectives have been met, and find out if methods used were appropriate and efficient
- Often set aside 10-15% of your budget for evalusation
What are the three E’s of evaluation?
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Economy
What does ‘efficiency’ in evaluation mean?
- To assess what has been achieved, did an intervention have its intended effect
What does ‘effectiveness’ in evaluation mean?
- To measure its impact and whether it was worthwhile
What does ‘economy’ in evalution mean?
- To judge its cost-effectiveness and whether time/money and labour were well spent
What is encompassed in ‘process evaluation’? (5 points)
- Aims to be practical
- Addresses process of programme implementation/dissemination
- Participants’ perceptions/reactions
- ‘soft’ data often collected, interviews, observations etc
- Tells us about the particular programme and factors responsible for success failure
What is encompassed in impact evaluation? (4 points)
- Refers to immediate effects, often done at end of a programme
- Use of questionnaires to determine change in behaviour/increase in knowledge
- ‘Hard data’ collected
- Often done as easier to do