African primary care research : performing a programme evaluation
Date
2014-06
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AOSIS Publishing
Abstract
This article is part of a series on Primary Care Research in the African context and focuses on
programme evaluation. Different types of programme evaluation are outlined: developmental,
process, outcome and impact. Eight steps to follow in designing your programme evaluation
are then described in some detail: engage stakeholders; establish what is known; describe
the programme; define the evaluation and select a study design; define the indicators; plan
and manage data collection and analysis; make judgements and recommendations; and
disseminate the findings. Other articles in the series cover related topics such as writing your
research proposal, performing a literature review, conducting surveys with questionnaires,
qualitative interviewing and approaches to quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
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CITATION: Dudley, L. 2014. African primary care research: Performing a programme evaluation. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 6(1): 1-6, doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.634.
The original publication is available at http://www.phcfm.org
The original publication is available at http://www.phcfm.org
Keywords
Primary care (Medicine) -- Research -- Africa, Primary care (Medicine) -- Africa -- Evaluation, Health promotion -- Africa -- Evaluation
Citation
Dudley, L. 2014. African primary care research: Performing a programme evaluation. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 6(1): 1-6, doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.634