Cassetti, V. orcid.org/0000-0002-7334-2461 and Paredes-Carbonell, J.J. (2020) Theory of change : a tool for participatory planning and evaluation in community health. Gaceta Sanitaria, 34 (3). pp. 305-307. ISSN 0213-9111
Abstract
There is a growing interest in finding innovative approaches to the evaluation of complex interventions in public health. This methodological note presents the theory of change as a useful tool to facilitate both the planning and the evaluation of community health promotion interventions. A theory of change is a visual representation of how a programme or intervention works, in which its different components can be identified, together with how they relate to each other: what its objectives are, its expected results and through which actions they are expected to be achieved. It can be an applied research tool, developed using participatory approaches together with all relevant stakeholders, who can identify and jointly decide what to evaluate and how to.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Evaluation methodology; Community health; Health promotion; Qualitative research |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2019 11:47 |
Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 16:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.gaceta.2019.06.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153759 |