Hygiena 2014, 59(1):47-49 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1219

Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Promotion Programmes

Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová

Masarykova univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Ústav preventivního lékařství, Brno

For correct processing, health promotion programmes require not only the key element of intervention as a project instrument, but also proper assessment, which means programme monitoring and evaluation. Monitoring and evaluation should follow a sophisticated procedure with specific standards and conditions that need to be respected. Prior to evaluation of the project, it is important to determine specific evaluation criteria; amongst basic conditions of properly selected criteria are correctly selected indicators of such an evaluation. Improperly set indicators, that do not reflect the objectives of the project and are not relevant to them represent the most commonly enacted mistake in the majority of health promotion programmes. It is advisable to plan both internal and external evaluation and to list anticipated obstacles and barriers in advance, in order to define the concept of "project effectiveness" for each specific programme, and attempt to predict a project "cost/effect" ratio. Proposals of health promotion programmes, as part of planned monitoring and evaluation, should include clearly defined methods for presenting the process, course and results of the programme, including the final information derived from the results of monitoring and evaluation. The issue of monitoring and evaluation of health promotion programmes, their procedure and methods should be addressed by further studies and development as part of the agenda of fields dealing with prevention and health promotion.

Keywords: health promotion programmes - assessment

Received: February 2013; Accepted: May 15, 2013; Published: March 1, 2014  Show citation