ArticlePreventing chronic disease2015
Evaluating Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Interventions: Lessons Learned From CDC's Prevention Research Centers.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Tracing coalition changes in knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention to improve intervention implementation.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Implementation of an Individual + Policy, System, and Environmental (I + PSE) Technical Assistance Initiative to Increase Capacity of MCH Nutrition Strategic Planning.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States.Annual review of public health · 2022Review
- Measuring public opinion and acceptability of prevention policies: an integrative review and narrative synthesis of methods.Health research policy and systems · 2022Review
- Local Education Agency Impact on School Environments to Reduce Health Risk Behaviors and Experiences Among High School Students.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2022Article
- Aligning Physical Literacy With Critical Positive Youth Development and Student-Centered Pedagogy: Implications for Today's Youth.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Multi-level Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Interventions for Native People in the USA and Canada: a Scoping Review.Current diabetes reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThe field of public health is increasingly implementing initiatives intended to make policies, systems, and environments (PSEs) more supportive of healthy behaviors, even though the evidence for many of these strategies is only emerging. Our objective was 3-fold: 1) to describe evaluations of PSE-change programs in which the evaluators followed the steps of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, 2) to share the resulting lessons learned, and 3) to assist future evaluators of PSE-change programs with their evaluation design decisions.
methodsSeven Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) applied CDC's framework to evaluate their own PSE-change initiatives. The PRCs followed each step of the framework: 1) engage stakeholders, 2) describe program, 3) focus evaluation design, 4) gather credible evidence, 5) justify conclusions, and 6) ensure use and share lessons learned.
resultsEvaluation stakeholders represented a range of sectors, including public health departments, partner organizations, and community members. Public health departments were the primary stakeholders for 4 of the 7 evaluations. Four PRCs used logic models to describe the initiatives being evaluated. Their evaluations typically included both process and outcome questions and used mixed methods. Evaluation findings most commonly focused on contextual factors influencing change (process) and the adoption or implementation of PSE-change strategies (outcome). Evaluators shared lessons learned through various channels to reach local stakeholders and broader public health audiences.
conclusionFramework for Program Evaluation in Public Health is applicable to evaluations of PSE-change initiatives. Using this framework to guide such evaluations builds practice-based evidence for strategies that are increasingly being used to promote healthful behaviors.
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