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A review of Grey and academic literature of evaluation guidance relevant to public health interventions

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, September 2017
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Title
A review of Grey and academic literature of evaluation guidance relevant to public health interventions
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BMC Health Services Research, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2588-2
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Sarah Denford, Charles Abraham, Margaret Callaghan, Peter Aighton, Frank De Vocht, Steven Arris

Abstract

Public Health evaluation is essential to understanding what does and does not work, and robust demonstration of effectiveness may be crucial to securing future funding. Despite this, programs are often implemented with poor, incomplete or no evaluation. Public health practitioners are frequently required to provide evidence for the effectiveness of their services; thus, there is a growing need for evaluation guidance on how to evaluate public health programs. The aim of this study is to identify accessible high-quality, evaluation guidance, available to researchers and practitioners and to catalogue, summarise and categorise the content of a subset of accessible, quality guides to evaluation. We systematically reviewed grey and academic literature for documents providing support for evaluation of complex health interventions. Searches were conducted January to March 2015, and included academic databases, internet search engines, and consultations with academic and practicing public health experts. Data were extracted by two authors and sent to the authors of the guidance documents for comments. Our initial search identified 402 unique documents that were screened to identify those that were (1) developed by or for a national or international organization (2) freely available to all (3) published during or after 2000 (4) specific to public health. This yielded 98 documents from 43 organisations. Of these, 48 were reviewed in detail. This generated a detailed catalogue of quality evaluation guidance. The content included in documents covers 37 facets of evaluation. A wide range of guidance on evaluation of public health initiatives is available. Time and knowledge constraints may mean that busy practitioners find it challenging to access the most, up-to-date, relevant and useful guidance. This review presents links to and reviews of 48 quality guides to evaluation as well as categorising their content. This facilitates quick and each access to multiple selected sources of specific guidance.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Student > Master 7 16%
Researcher 5 11%
Unspecified 2 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 17 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 11%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Unspecified 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 20 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2018.
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#3,811,308
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#1,728
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#68,363
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#43
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