Health Program Planning and Evaluation

The Fourth Edition reflects the major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout.
New to this Edition:
-Introduction of the concept of root causes as social determinants.
-A comprehensive description of how each target setting option relates to the corresponding level of the health impact pyramid.
-More information on informatics and big data as related to program planning and monitoring
-A discussion of photos and video as modes of data collection.
-A reinforcement of informatics, photos and big data as useful in program evaluation
-Current terminology of first and second order coding of qualitative data.

The following is a list of chapter specific major, substantive revisions evident in the 4th edition, beyond general updating of references:
-Combined Chapters 3 and 4 in order to tighten and shorten the content. Only currently used planning tools will be presented, and greater content on workforce planning will be added. We will increase the emphasis asset-based and strengths based approaches to assessment and planning. We will also discuss the relevance of the ACA to community assessment.
-Chapter 4: Introduce the concept of root causes as social determinants.
-Chapter 8: Provide a strong description of how each target setting option relates to the corresponding level of the health impact pyramid.
-Move Chapter 9 into Section III Health Program Development, and revise wording to reflect that the information is part of the development phase.
- Chapter 10: increase the content on informatics and big data as related to program planning and monitoring. Revise the exhibit to show the budge on an excel sheet.
- Chapter 11: include discussion of photos and video as modes of data collection.
- Chapter 15: reinforce informatics, photos and big data as useful in program evaluation
- Chapter 16: revise to reflect current terminology of first and second order coding of qualitative data. We will also frame case study as a mixed method rather than a strictly qualitative method