Evaluate me please!
This type of research involves a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Mixed Methods
Miasma theory? That's SUS. I think the problem is in the water from this pump, said this 19th century English physician.
John Snow
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health.
Health Disparities
Thanks Bronfenbrenner! This model helps me understand the multiple influences on behavior and health.
Ecological systems theory or the socioecological model
This type of evaluation design is not randomly assigned and doesn't have a comparison group
Non-experimental design
This nine-step planning tool includes activities BEFORE, during, and AFTER a program.
PRECEDE-PROCEED
Make Primary Care focused on symptoms rather than root causes again! But for real, don't do that.
Selective Primary Health Care
This US nationwide health promotion agenda is released every 10 years
Healthy People
The smaller the effect, the larger the sample size needed to detect it. That's one powerful idea!
Statistical Power
This theory includes instrumental, emotional, informational, and appraisal dimensions of aid. Thanks for the help, friend!
Social Support Theory
This type of evaluation involves making sure the implementation is going according to plan.
Process Evaluation
This ethical report includes Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice as key components.
The Belmont Report
Health for All the people of the world by the year 2000! Declared optimistically at a conference in this Kazakhstani city.
Alma Ata (or Almaty)
Each person in the US has an equal probability of being included in my study.
Random Sampling or Random Sample
Each person who agreed to participate in my study has an equal probability of being assigned to the treatment group or control group.
Random Assignment
In these images, an X represents the intervention and an O represents a measurement occasion.
Evaluation Design Notation
This shockingly unethical study made some participants think they killed someone with electricity in the other room.
Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment
This report named after a Canadian Minister advanced the notion that premature illness is driven more by lifestyle than healthcare access.
LaLonde Report
We cannot directly observe it, but can measure with items in a scale. Circle that!
Latent construct
“The process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people”
Community Engagement
I'm going to analyze this RCT data as if those who got the treatment actually got it, and those who got the control didn't get the treatment. That's my intention anyway.
Intent-to-Treat analysis
This Brazilian educator and philosopher developed the idea of Conscientização – learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions.
Paulo Freire
Reflection + Action or Thought + Practice. Now that's a new word!
Praxis
This theory includes the Five Ps - product, price, place, promotion, and policy. Now that's an idea I can sell!
Social Marketing
The probability of observing a test statistic as or more extreme than the one observed, under a specified statistical model. An index of surprise.
p-value
This RCT analysis approach tells us the effect of treatment among folks who "understand the assignment" and comply with their assigned treatment group.
Complier Average Causal Effects
Beyond logical: It specifies causal pathways between Inputs, Activities, Outputs, Outcomes, and Impacts.
Theory of Change
These programs crushed impoverished nations ability to respond to health crises in the 1980s and 1990s. They were crippled by debt from borrowing.
Structural Adjustment Programs
Sometimes it's called the Stages of Change model, but there's more to it! Processes of change, decisional balance, and self-efficacy for instance.
Transtheoretical Model or TTM
This research approach involves participation of the community as co-researchers and the researcher as a co-learner.
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)