PUB 620: Process and Evaluations Discussion

The process and outcome evaluations are two essential pieces to answer how a program was implemented and its impact. The difference between these two pieces is that the evaluation of the process is all the information that will describe the characteristics of the program, such as methods, acceptability, and barriers. The process evaluation can help the evaluators know if the program is useful to correct the problems that impede the program’s effectiveness on time. On the other hand, outcome evaluation is based on evaluating the program implementation’s actual and long-term impacts on the population (Fertman & Allensworth, 2017).

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Both the process evaluation and outcome evaluation are essential for evaluating public health programs since they can help the creators of programs and interventions to identify all the resources and elements necessary for the implementation of the program, such as the activities, resources available, the structure, and in this way decide if they have what is necessary or if more investment is required. They can also help identify if the intervention will be useful and improve the intervention’s quality during implementation. The evaluation helps determine if the program achieved the expected behavior change objective and inform through the interventions about the political decisions on health problems at all government levels (Smith & Ory, 2014).

References

Fertman, C. I., & Allensworth, D. D. (2017). Health promotion programs: From theory to practice (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass.

Smith, M. L., & Ory, M. G. (2014). Measuring Success: evaluation article types for the public health education and promotion section of frontiers in public health. Frontiers in public health, 2, 111. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00111

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