When do you evaluate your public health program?
• Evaluating Intervention: key element of community oral health programs- take place at all stages- both formative and summative evaluation.• Program evaluation- applied research
• Baseline information (knowledge, attituds, or behaviors before)
• Points to evaluate:
o Quality of program and personnel (formative)
o Progress and effectiveness of activities (formative)
o Perceptions, attitudes, + participation of recipients of program (formative)
o Systematic + regular eval of goals + objectives
• Quantitative (how many people increased their knowledge of the causes of ECC)
• Qualitative (why did people participate in the activity and how do they intend to change their parenting behaviors)
• Health status of participants of program after it is completed.
• evaluating it at all stages allows planners to revise programs as needed to improve its outcomes.
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