Evaluating the Healthy Start Program: Design Development to Evaluative Assessment

The national evaluation of the federallyfunded Healthy Start program involved translating a design for a process and outcomes evaluation and standard maternal and infant data set, both developed prior to the national evaluation contract award, into an evaluation design and client data collection pro...

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Published in:Evaluation & the health professions 1996-09, Vol.19 (3), p.342-362
Main Authors: Raykovich, K. S. T., McCormick, Marie C., Howell, Embry M., Devaney, Barbara L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child Health Services - organization & administration
Data Collection - methods
Evaluation
Female
Health Services
Health technology assessment
Humans
Infant Mortality
Infant, Newborn
National Health Programs - organization & administration
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Pregnancy
Prevention
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Programmes
Public Health
Reduction
United States
USA
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Summary:The national evaluation of the federallyfunded Healthy Start program involved translating a design for a process and outcomes evaluation and standard maternal and infant data set, both developed prior to the national evaluation contract award, into an evaluation design and client data collection protocol that could be used to evaluate 15 diverse grantees. This article discusses the experience of creating a process and outcomes evaluation design that was both substantively and methodologically appropriate given such issues as the diversity of grantees and their community-based intervention strategies; the process of accessing secondary data sources, including vital records; the quality of client level data submissions; and the need to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative approaches into the evaluation design. The relevance of this experience for the conduct of otherfield studies of public health interventions is discussed
ISSN:0163-2787
1552-3918
DOI:10.1177/016327879601900307