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Building the Evidence Base for Population-Level Interventions: Barriers and Opportunities
Methods: A review of grey, extant, and published literature on tools and methods related to assessing evidence for community-level interventions was conducted. This review informed an expert panel, which was convened to develop a resource to guide public health decision-makers and practitioners, particularly the HHS grantees.
Results: The resource developed by the expert panel focuses on the unique strengths and challenges associated with implementing and evaluating population-level approaches for improving health. The elements of community context--such as community resources and values, among others—are of particular importance to the success or failure of community-level interventions but these elements are not often captured in existing evidence resources. Developing measures of community context and methods to integrate these measures into evidence of effectiveness is a remaining challenge to the field. By piloting the resource, the HHS hopes to advance the field’s ability to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of community-level interventions.
Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practiceProgram planning
Public health or related research
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Discuss and analyze a newly developed resource for identifying, implementing, and evaluating population-level interventions and its strengths and limitations for the field.
Identify next steps for the field of population-level intervention evaluation and implementation.
Discuss and analyze how to begin a systematic approach for measuring community contextual factors.
Keyword(s): Evaluation, Community-Based Health
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked in public health program evaluation for the past seven years in multiple subject areas including obesity, maternal and child health, active transportation, veteran's health, and health care delivery. My background is in public health policy. For this abstract I conducted substantive research into evaluation methods and population-level interventions.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.