Description: This timely text gives students the methods to evaluate health programs. Readers will gain insight into how to navigate the political terrain to work more effectively with decision-makers and other groups. Grembowski uses the metaphor of evaluation being a three-act play with a variety of actors and interest groups, each having a role, and each entering and exiting the "stage" at different points in the evaluation process. In addition, the text:
-- Covers the methods for selecting among one or more evaluation designs
-- Discusses the use of the answers by decision makers, including methods for developing formal dissemination plans, factors influencing whether evaluation findings are used or not, and future challenges facing the discipline

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