Evaluating Policy and Systems Change Interventions
- Susan Ladd, Evaluation Support, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Northrop Grumman (moderator)
- Alice Ammerman, Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Session Objective
To increase HDSP states’ ability / capacity to evaluate policy and system change interventions relevant to their programs.
Supporting Skills and Knowledge
- Identify the challenges and limitations of evaluating policy and system change relative to individual-level behavior change.
- Describe RE-AIM and the socio-ecologic model as frameworks to help understand the scope and determinants of policy and environmental change
- Review case study examples to illustrate the variety of potential approaches to evaluating policy and system change
- Consider potential qualitative and quantitative evaluation strategies and measures as part of a “toolbox” that could be applied to a variety of policy and systems change interventions
- Practice applying these strategies per the activity described below
Session Summary
In this session, participants will discuss the challenges of applying traditional evaluation frameworks to policy and systems change. They will review case study examples of policy and systems change evaluation and conduct large and small group problem solving sessions addressing evaluation challenges faced by HDSP session participants. Participants will conduct problem solving around “real world” case examples to design an intervention strategy for evaluation of policy and systems change interventions. Participants will also be asked to share examples of their own evaluation challenges and the group will work together to design potential approaches to evaluation. Participants will return to their home states with a “toolbox” of strategies and measures to help them evaluate their own programs.
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