Courses Details
HBHEQ622: Program Evaluation in Health Education
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Ritesh Mistry, Ritesh Mistry, (Residential);
- Offered every year
- Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or equiv. and a course dealing with health education program development
- Description: Examination and application, through a series of exercises, of several program evaluation models relevant for health education, including the goal attainment, goal-free, systems responsive, and decision-theoretic models, with emphasis on both process and impact analysis. Design options for measuring program effect, with the associated threats and external validity, are discussed, and several basic statistical techniques are reviewed and examined in terms of their applicability to program evaluation, including sampling and sample size determination for both surveys and experiments.
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HBHE | MPH | Apply research and evaluation methods to understand the effect of health interventions, programs and/or policies on health [behavior] and health equity. | HBHEQ622 |
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