Evaluation of Health Education
By: Abadi H.
Evaluation of Health Education
• Evaluation is the systematic collection, analysis and reporting of information about
health education activities
• Evaluating means finding out how well you are doing in your health education work
in your community, and making a judgment about your achievements
• It is a critical assessment of the good and bad points of your health education
interventions, and how they could be improved
• Evaluation is the process of assessing whether your specified objectives have been
achieved, in other words how successful you have been
Purpose of evaluation in health education
• Evaluation will help you to determine how effective you are in achieving your
objectives
❖Effectiveness refers to the extent to which you have achieved your goals and
objectives
• Evaluation should be able to help you determine whether you have used your
resources efficiently while achieving your objectives
❖Efficiency means the extent to which you have achieved your objectives with the
available amount of resources
Evaluation of Health Education…
• Evaluation can also be conducted by external bodies who may not have been
involved in the health education implementation itself
• If you evaluate your own work, you may over-appreciate your performance and
underestimate the weaknesses
• However, this does not mean that you should not evaluate your activities; rather,
that you should take care to avoid such bias
Evaluation of Health Education…
• Evaluation is different from monitoring because it can only be done after a
certain time, and requires more thorough investigation
• It can be conducted by independent evaluators
• Moreover, evaluation involves judgment — whereas monitoring assesses
progress in implementation of ongoing activities, and it does not involve
judgments
Types of Evaluation in Health Promotion/Health promotion
• Several types of evaluation designs and frameworks can be used to assess health
promotion and disease prevention programs
• Each design and framework uses different approaches for assessment, data collection,
and measurement
• The types of frameworks that have been used for rural health promotion and disease
prevention program evaluations include:
1. Formative evaluation:
➢Formative evaluation occurs during program development and implementation
➢It provides information on achieving program goals or improving your program
Types of Evaluation in Health Promotion/Health promotion…
2. Process evaluation:
➢Process evaluation is a type of formative evaluation that assesses the type, quantity, and quality
of program activities or services
3. Outcome evaluation:
➢Outcome evaluation can focus on short- and long-term program objectives
➢Appropriate measures demonstrate changes in health conditions, quality of life, and behaviors
4. Impact evaluation:
➢Impact evaluation assesses a program's effect on participants
➢Appropriate measures include changes in awareness, knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and/or
skills
Steps in the evaluation of health education activities (6 steps)
• Step 1: Involve people to participate in the activities
• Step 2: Describe the activities to be evaluated
• Step 3: Select methods
• Step 4: Collect credible data
• Step 5: Analyze the data
• Step 6: Learn from evaluation
