L. Michele Issel

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health, Fifth Edition carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this invaluable resource prepares students and professionals to become not only competent health program planners, but savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants.Thoughtfully constructed, the authors uniquely use program theory–a conceptual model of program planning and evaluation–throughout the text to reinforce the cyclical nature of the process. Additionally, each chapter concludes with a summary that is organized by levels of the public health pyramid, reinforcing the social-ecological and multi-level nature of health promotion and public health planning.Key Features: •Examples and references from public health, medicine, nursing, social work, and community health that provide an interdisciplinary perspective while addressing public health programming.•Systems thinking concepts, such as feedback, and its importance to those who fund health programs and desire to support programs creating systems change.•Greater focus on cultural humility•New full color design that brings tables, figures and diagrams to life•Updated research references, such as studies using geographic information systems and other advances in the use of integrated data in public health•Updated internet resources in each chapter, including sources outside the United States•Each new print copy includes Navigate eBook Access enabling you to read your digital textbook online or offline, on computers, tablets, and mobile devices.

Selected by Doody's Review Services as one of Doody's Core Titles in Public Health, Health Program Planning and Evaluation, Fourth Edition carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. The Fourth Edition reflects the major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout. New to this Edition: • Introduction of the concept of root causes as social determinants. • A comprehensive description of how each target setting option relates to the corresponding level of the health impact pyramid. • More information on informatics and big data as related to program planning and monitoring • A discussion of photos and video as modes of data collection. • A reinforcement of informatics, photos and big data as useful in program evaluation • Current terminology of first and second order coding of qualitative data. The following is a list of chapter specific major, substantive revisions evident in the 4th edition, beyond general updating of references: • Combined Chapters 3 and 4 in order to tighten and shorten the content. Only currently used planning tools will be presented, and greater content on workforce planning will be added. We will increase the emphasis asset-based and strengths based approaches to assessment and planning. We will also discuss the relevance of the ACA to community assessment. • Chapter 4: Introduce the concept of root causes as social determinants. • Chapter 8: Provide a strong description of how each target setting option relates to the corresponding level of the health impact pyramid. • Move Chapter 9 into Section III Health Program Development, and revise wording to reflect that the information is part of the development phase. • Chapter 10: increase the content on informatics and big data as related to program planning and monitoring. Revise the exhibit to show the budge on an excel sheet. • Chapter 11: include discussion of photos and video as modes of data collection. • Chapter 15: reinforce informatics, photos and big data as useful in program evaluation • Chapter 16: revise to reflect current terminology of first and second order coding of qualitative data. We will also frame case study as a mixed method rather than a strictly qualitative method