Evaluating Health and Social Care

<p>A practical book, based on sound theoretical models, which explores the main criteria available for evaluating social care and health services. The book explains why the various criteria are used, identifies the problems inherent in using them, and offers specific guidance on how to use each of the criteria. The guidance offered is seen as important at a time when health and social care agencies are under increasing pressure to evaluate and improve their performance.</p>

Business & Money

Phillips, Ceri

International

Red Globe Press

Evaluation for the Real World: The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

This text examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services.

Politics & Social Sciences

Thomas, Paul

Palfrey, Colin

Politics & Government

Policy Press

Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policymaking process, but in reality, they are often disregarded. Evaluation for the Real World examines the use—and nonuse—of evaluation research by decision makers. Analyzing the frameworks and criteria of various evaluation procedures, it highlights the impact evaluation has on public policy with an emphasis on the real world of decision making in the public sector and the political and economic pressures it faces. Assessing the work of influential academics in both the United States and UK, the authors formulate strong arguments for the adoption of a different approach to evaluation. 

At a time when increasing pressures are being placed on health care budgets, this book provides a comparative evaluation of health promotion. Health promotion activities are both compared with other health care activities and given economic evaluation individually. Establishing a basis for the economic evaluation, this study explores the methodological issues of relevence to health promotion agencies in formulating future strategies. References are made to published studies, drawn from a number of health promotion areas, in order to consider the direction of future developments in health promotion.

Economic Evaluation & Health Promotion

Economics

Avebury

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