Challenges and Issues around the evaluation of interventions
Session Objectives:
Evaluation is an essential dimension of programme development and implementation. The evaluation process allows for the consideration of multiple effects, both expected and unexpected, allows for the assessment of their impact in terms of equity, reproducibility and the reduction of social and health inequalities.
Over the last few years, several interventions from the francophone world have structured thinking in this area and we believe that it would be interesting to open the debate on the various roles evaluation may play in developing the field of health promotion.
Key messages / key questions for debate:
This session will address different issues in the evaluation of health promotion interventions in complex environments and, more specifically, seek to:
- address the uniqueness of health promotion evaluation (what is an appropriate and relevant evaluation and how it may be able to convey messages to policy and decision makers);
- address the issue of directive and outcome focused evaluation versus nondirective evaluation considered as a driving force for change;
- address issues around engaging in dialogues with all stakeholders;
- look at the involvement and role of evaluators vs. that of practitioners or those that benefit from evaluations; examine interaction with those that commission evaluations;
- exchange around the usefulness of evaluation results, in particular for policy and decision makers;
- look at/debate the use of mixed evaluation methods and realistic approaches in evaluation.
The proposed sub-plenary workshop will address more specifically the ways in which evaluation can look at and provide information on all dimensions related to the impact of programmes and actions in terms of equity and the fight against social and health inequalities.
Chair :
- Prof. Brenda Spencer, Institut Universitaire de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Prof. Michel O’Neill, Faculté des Sciences Infirmières, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Presentation (PPS, 70.5 kB)
- Prof. Louise Potvin, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Prof. Brenda Spencer, Institut Universitaire de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Prof. Valéry Ridde, CRCHUM and Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal, Canada and associate researcher at the IRSS/CNRST Burkina Faso
- Prof. Sara Willems, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Prof. Ligia de Salazar, Centre for the development and evaluation of public health policy and technology, University del Valle, San Fernando, Colombia
- Dr. Seni Kouanda, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
