In this revision of Health Program Planning and Evaluation, author L. Michele Issel carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. The Third Edition reflects the major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout.

sect. I. The context of health program development and evaluation -- Context of health program development and evaluation -- Relevance of diversity and disparities to health programs -- sect. II. Defining the health problem -- Planning for health programs and services -- Community health assessment for program planning -- Characterizing and defining the health problem -- sect. III. Health program development -- Program theory and interventions revealed -- Program objectives and setting targets -- sect. IV. Implementing and monitoring the health program -- Program implementation -- Monitoring implementation through budgets and information systems -- Implementation evaluation : measuring inputs and outputs -- Program quality and fidelity : managerial and contextual considerations -- sect. V. Outcome and impact evaluation of health programs -- Planning the intervention effects evaluation -- Choosing designs for effect evaluation -- Sampling designs and data sources for effect evaluations -- Quantitative data analysis and interpretation -- Qualitative methods for planning and evaluation -- sect. VI. Additional considerations for evaluators -- Program evaluators' responsibilities.