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Effect evaluation of a comprehensive community intervention aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities in the Netherlands.
- Source :
- Health Promotion International; Jun2004, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p141-156, 16p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- To date, comprehensive community health projects have not been evaluated in terms of their effect at the individual level, because outcomes are usually not defined at this level. In a community health project in the Netherlands, evaluation outcome mapping, a technique derived from intervention mapping, was used to identify distal as well as proximal programme objectives from which outcome measures could be derived. The intervention took place in a deprived area, where community members themselves defined stress, lack of area safety and parenting problems as the health-related problems they wanted to see addressed in the project. Local organizations wrote and implemented an action plan. The effects among residents were studied in a quasi-experimental design. Although no significant effects on improved perceived health or health-related problems were found at the level of the residents, the problems identified and their assumed causes showed significant coherence. This study is believed to be of relevance to evidence-based health promotion theory and practice as it demonstrates that it is possible to conduct an individual effect evaluation in a comprehensive community approach without jeopardizing the process of the intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09574824
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Promotion International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25927202
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dah202