Annotated Bibliography for Health Program Evaluation
Cadogan, K., Waldrop, J., Maslow, G., & Chung, R. J. (2018). SMART transitions: A program
evaluation. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 32(4), e81-e90.
The article gave me an insight into how different programs were chosen to enhance the success of transitions to adult care for children who have health care needs from pediatric. A few of these are the ones that have been analyzed for their effectiveness. This project’s purpose was to assess the Duke Complex Care Clinic through the use of social models of young adults and adolescents in making them ready for the transition.
Cronbach, L. J., Ambron, S. R., Dornbusch, S. M., Hess, R. D., Hornik, R. C., Phillips, D. C., …
& Weiner, S. S. (1980). Toward reform of program evaluation (p. 3). San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
From this article, we learn how we can make the evaluation procedures better through the use of democratic principles. The writer of the article has provided a full description of how social programs ought to look like in the democratic social order. The following concepts were identified: authority and power are derived from continuous experiments and trials from the local environment where people in charge of decision making are in charge of understanding the consequences. Gradualism is better when compared to revolution. Decisions always emerge and are not commanded.
Cooksy, L. J. (2008). Book Review: Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches by John M.
Owen. New York: Guilford Press, 2006. American Journal of Evaluation, 29(1), 108-112.
This article was used to give an insight into what evaluation is. It also provides information regarding how we apply evaluation in our lives. The evaluation is conducted on individuals and products. Owen has identified five forms of evaluation. Proactive, interactive, monitoring impact, and claricative. We also get to learn about negotiation and evaluation planning as well as the negotiation theory.
Fry, C. E., Nikpay, S. S., Leslie, E., & Buntin, M. B. (2018). Evaluating community-based health
improvement programs. Health Affairs, 37(1), 22-29.
This article is having been used to provide information regarding the implementation of health based on the community improvement programs, which were related to the decline in the obesity rate. The article shows a decrease in the percentage of people who were reported to have poor health. The writer further explains what funding the implementation of this program ought to do to ensure the intended policies are implemented and attain the required goals.
Smith, M. L., & Ory, M. G. (2014). Measuring success: evaluation article types for the Public
Health Education and Promotion Section of Frontiers in Public Health. Frontiers in public
health, 2, 111.
This article has been vital in the research as it has provided me with a basis for why the evaluation of public health policies is considered essential. The article enabled me to discern the various importance of the evaluation, which includes but not limited to. Establish the efficiency of certain interventions, analyze and better the quality of the intervention, etc.
Gargani, J., Miller, R. L., & Spiegelman, D. (2016). What is program evaluation? /spiegelman
responds. American journal of public health, 106(6), E13.
This article gave me the definition of program evaluation. There were different meanings that i got to identify from reading this article—this article further enlightened e on the origin of the evaluation and its evolution process. Evaluation keeps on evolving. The article has enabled me to distinguish between program evaluation and other inquiry approaches by considering the types of knowledge generated.