Description
You will be asked to explore the issues surrounding program evaluation for community health/population health programs, the importance of having an effective plan to obtain high quality data and information to make decisions, as well as issues surrounding the sharing of such information. This Case Study is for a program evaluation designed to determine whether a direct service intervention program is effective.
Part 1: Program Evaluation (Does not use EHR Go)
Instructions
Answer the questions below based on the Casey Study provided in your course – see Week 8 course content to download the Case Study. While this is not a formal paper, please be sure to cite your sources (you must cite a minimum of at least 1 source) using APA format when providing your answers.
Please note that by completing this assignment you are abiding by the following academic honesty statement:
I hereby attest that by submitting this assignment, that the work and writing are my own, that any direct quotations have been properly cited and that I have properly cited references where I have used someone else’s ideas.
Additional resources for completing Part 1:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). A framework for program evaluation. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/
Measure Evaluation: http://www.measureevaluation.org/
Questions
Answer the following questions about the program evaluation using an established framework for program evaluation.
1. Identify a framework that can be used for the program evaluation and its key features.
2. Who are the potential stakeholders for this program. Please list and indicate why each person, or representative of a group should be included.
3. What strategies will be used to engage the stakeholders with the program evaluation goals, share power and resolve conflicts?
4. Provide a description of the intervention that is being evaluated. What is it that the program is trying to accomplish? What need is the program serving? How does the program fit into the larger goals of the organization?
5. What types of evaluation questions would you ask? Is a formative or summative evaluation most appropriate, or would you use both? Explain your answer.
6. What are the intended results of the program? Specify the outcomes. What will the program need to do to be considered successful?
7. What criteria can be used to judge program performance? What standards of performance on the criteria must be reached for the program to be considered successful? You may use a table for this answer.
8. What evidence will indicate performance on the criteria relative to the standards?
9. What are the sources of the evidence or data for each of the criteria for the program evaluation?
10. What processes could be put in place to make the data collection for the program evaluation is easy to use, valid, and reliable? Reliability refers to the reproducibility of the data. Validity refers to whether the measure is truly measuring the concept, or outcome.
11. How can the program evaluation data be shared with stakeholders? Health care providers? Health information exchanges? Funding agency?
12. Summarize how the health informaticist can create value in the transformation of data to information to support goals of a program evaluation.
HINF 550 Week 8 Assignment – Part 1 Case Study
You are a health informaticist who is a member of a team for a city health department that is charged with developing an evaluation plan for its tobacco prevention and cessation program. The program includes a smoking quit line, chronic diseases program to reduce the burden of tobacco-related diseases and is planning to develop a program to reduce e-cigarette use among youth. The program also provides outreach to provide educational services about tobacco prevention and cessation to members of the community.
The city has a higher rate of smokers than the average for the state and also the national average. Recently, there has been an influx of Hispanic immigrants to the community, but many members of that community are hesitant to use healthcare services. The city is seeking state grant funds to support its work and needs to have a clearly developed plan for evaluation of the program.
Last year, the program was denied grant funds because the evaluation
submitted for the use of the previous year’s grant funds was missing data
and did not adequately justify the use of the funds. The agency wants to
submit a grant application to cover the direct costs of the services and
needs to develop a more comprehensive evaluation plan.
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Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION
Community Health Program Evaluation
Student Name
Institution Affiliation
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COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION
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Community Health Program Evaluation
Thesis statement: This paper tries explores the issues surrounding program evaluation for
community health/population health programs, the importance of having an effective plan to
obtain high quality data and information to make decisions, as well as issues surrounding the
sharing of such information. This Case Study is for a program evaluation designed to
determine whether a direct service intervention program is effective.
1. Program evaluation framework
a. Impact evaluation
2. Potential stakeholders
a. City health department
b. Program team
c. Youths
d. Chronic and tobacco-ailed patients
e. Local, regional, and city coalitions
f. Funds providing agencies
g. State and city agencies
h. Program critics
3. Strategies on stakeholders engagement
a. Building a participatory program
4. Intervention description
a. Develop a succinct, clear, and terse description of the program
5. Evaluation questions
a. Formative evaluation
6. Intended results
a. Short-term expected results
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION
b. Intermediated outcomes
c. Expected long-term outcomes
7. Program performance
a. Refining the outcomes
8. Performance evidence
a. Data and evidence collection
9. Evidence sources
a. City people
b. Observations
c. Documents
10. Easy evaluation
a. Validity
b. Reliable
11. Data sharing
a. Recommendations
12. Health informaticist
a. Value in the transformation of data to information
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General Instructions for submission of work
Provide your answers directly on this activity document as you complete all 3 Parts of this final Week 8
assignment. When you are finished, save this activity document to your device and upload this activity
document with your answers to your Learning Management System (LMS), also referred to as Engage.
Note that this Week 8 Assignment has 3 Parts:
• Part 1 - Answer the Program Evaluation Case Study Questions
• Part 2 - Data Visualization
• Part 3 - National Data Set Analysis
Part 1: Program Evaluation (Does not use EHR Go)
Instructions
Answer the questions below based on the Casey Study provided in your course – see Week 8
course content to download the Case Study. While this is not a formal paper, please be sure to
cite your sources (you must cite a minimum of at least 1 source) using APA format when
providing your answers.
Please note that by completing this assignment you are abiding by the following academic
honesty statement:
I hereby attest that by submitting this assignment, that the work and writing are my own, that any
direct quotations have been properly cited and that I have properly cited references where I have
used someone else’s ideas.
Additional resources for completing Part 1:
EHR Go Knowledge Activity: Orientation to Data VisualizationIV (Informatics) IK1026.2
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). A framework for program evaluation.
Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/
Measure Evaluation: http://www.measureevaluation.org/
Questions
Answer the following questions about the program evaluation using an established framework for
program evaluation.
1. Identify a framework that can be used for the program evaluation and its key features.
In the development of an evaluation program for the tobacco prevention and cessation
plan, an impact evaluation framework is the best to use. It assesses and gauges the success levels
of the project in terms of the previously stated goals and objectives ("Framework for Program
Evaluation - CDC", 2017). It assesses the evaluated interventions and their effects on the
intended and unintended outcomes. Its proper implementation demands for counterfactuals (with
vs. without) of the possible results when interventions are excluded. Key features when applying
an impact evaluation framework are:
a. Decision to continue with the program evaluation.
b. Identification of the key questions for the evaluation.
c. Program theory embedded evaluation design.
d. Comparison groups to serve the counterfactual purpose
e. Triangulated findings from the program evaluation.
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f. Properly contextualized program evaluation.
Impact evaluation is not feasible when conducted on all projects. Rather, it is feasible in
projects that require evidence with strong bases in different contexts guiding the policy-makers
("Evaluation Frameworks - Rural Services Integration Toolkit", 2020). The case for the
application of this framework is essential when developing an evaluation program for tobacco
prevention and cessation.
2. Who are the potential stakeholders for this program. Please list and indicate why each person, or
representative of a group should be included.
In developing a tobacco prevention and cessation evaluation program that involves
smoking exit lines, reducing chronic and tobacco-related illnesses, and trim down e-cigarette
usage, several collaborations will be involved (MacDonald et al., 2001). The key stakeholders
will include:
a. City health department – the department will support the program evaluation by
requesting support of resources in terms of human resources and finances from the state
and national governments. It will be charged with the program control and
implementation responsibility.
b. Program team – a team from the city health department, will be charged with the role of
conducting the program evaluation plan right from the initial stages to its completion. A
project manager will lead the team, and members will be some staff of the city health
department.
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c. Youths – the youths addicted to e-cigarettes will be essential stakeholders as efforts of the
program will be driven towards reducing their addiction and usage of e-cigarettes.
d. Chronic and tobacco-ailed patients – sampling patients with chronic and tobacco-related
illnesses will be essential in this program evaluation as the program will try to reduce
their magnitude and frequencies.
e. Local, regional, and city coalitions – Coalitions interested in the reduction of the usage of
tobacco will be critical stakeholders to be involved in this program.
f. Funds providing agencies – these will include the state and national governments that
will provide funds in support of the program.
g. State and city agencies –these would be interested parties, including education agencies,
law enforcement agencies, among others.
h. Program critics – they are essential in the identification of issues around the information
and strategies in the program that would need change or get discredited.
3. What strategies will be used to engage the stakeholders with the program evaluation goals, share
power and resolve conflicts?
The involvement and considerations of the stakeholders' interests and perspective is vital
in pursuing acceptance of the program. They are involved at various levels of engagement.
Engaging the different stakeholders is key to building a participatory program evaluation
approach (MacDonald et al., 2001). The strategies used to involve these stakeholders at the
different levels of engagement include:
a. Stakeholders' identification
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b. Stakeholders' roles identification
c. Representation of discrete stakeholders and their organizations.
d. Respect and understanding of the stakeholders' values.
e. Plan creation for the involvement of the stakeholders.
f. Identification of areas requiring the input of stakeholders.
g. Unite the stakeholders as required.
h. Key stakeholders targeting to frequent participation.
i. Evaluation questions suggestions by stakeholders.
It is, however, essential to interact, engage, and involve stakeholders with caution. Their
motives and roles in the program must be well defined to keep in check their progress.
4. Provide a description of the intervention that is being evaluated. What is it that the program is
trying to accomplish? What need is the program serving? How does the program fit into the larger
goals of the organization?
In the evaluation process, it is essential to develop a succinct, clear, and terse description
of the program. By doing this, the purpose, capacity, and activities of the program in reducing
the use of tobacco and improving the health of the city residents will be defined. The description
ensures that all stakeholders have the same understanding intensities on the anticipated
outcomes, implementation, and components of the program. Deeper thinking towards the
program will be fostered. The intervention that will be evaluated here will be the health
predicaments and consequences to the community and the city that result from tobacco use. The
program will assess the intensity of this problem and its magnitude in the city. All the health
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troubles arising from tobacco and e-cigarette use will be well determined and the target groups.
In this program, the target groups in the city will mainly be the youths who are addicted to ecigarettes, the patients with chronic and tobacco-related illnesses among other parties. The
program evaluation will determine the trends and changes occurring and will make
recommendations of the same (MacDonald et al., 2001). Available state data will also need to be
considered by the program teams to help address the health aspect of specific community groups.
The program will try to accomplish the following:
a. Prevent tobacco use initiation among the youths and the young.
b. Promote tobacco use exit of both adults and young populace.
c. Eliminate the exposure of nonsmokers from the tobacco smoked environments.
d. Identify and eliminate all tobacco use related disparities and the potential effects in the
city and diverse groups.
With the primary goal of the program being the elimination of the exposure to tobacco
smokes environments; it will serve the following needs:
a. Develop a smoking exit plan
b. Develop a chronic disease program that will be aimed at reducing the tobacco-related
illnesses burden.
c. Develop a plan that reduces the e-cigarette addiction and use among young people.
d. Develop an outreach plan that is educative on pre...
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