Program evaluation techniques in the health services

Meredith, Jack

Program evaluation techniques in the health services

1976

Meredith, Jack

Extract: The issue of program evaluation in the area of health services is addressed; examples are drawn from the field of mental health. Current arguments concerning the goals, characteristics, and methodologies of program evaluation are discussed and two generally useful quantitative evaluation models are presented. The models are compared and their advantages for clinicians and administrators are detailed.

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AGROVOC Keywords

health services mental health models models standards

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Published in

Am J Public Health

Volume 66 Issue 11 Pagination 1069 - 1073 ISSN 0090-0036

Other Subjects

Evaluation methods; Theoretical; Quality of health care; Cost-benefit analysis; Mental health services; Program evaluation; Markov chains; Medical services; Evaluation studies as topic

Language

English

Type

Journal Article; Text

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