Evaluating Public Health Interventions unit (CXA319)

Introduction

Evaluation is a core function and responsibility of public health professionals and provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit develops foundation competencies in health intervention evaluation, including stakeholder consultation, evaluation design and planning, needs assessment, logic modelling, evaluability assessment and conceptual frameworks relevant to evaluation in public health practice. This is underpinned by exploration of the different evaluation approaches and research and evaluation methods used in public health practice.

Summary

Unit name	Evaluating Public Health Interventions
Unit code	CXA319
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Health School of Health Sciences
Discipline	Health Sciences
Coordinator	Miss Jay Webb
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Advanced

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the application and importance of health intervention evaluation in health system improvement.
• Describe and apply key approaches to conducting health needs and evaluability assessments.
• Describe the strengths and limitations of different health intervention evaluation types, approaches, data collection and analysis methods.
• Design a public health intervention evaluation plan using contemporary and appropriate approaches to stakeholder engagement, logic modelling and data collection and analysis methods.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

CXA229 - Planning Public Health Interventions

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Independent learning (6hrs x weekly); Tutorial (2hrs x 12 times); Workshop (3hrs x 5 times)
Assessment	Critical Reflection (20%)|Assignment (30%)|Assignment (50%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required

You will need the following text.  All of these books are available online as eBooks through the University of Tasmania library. 1.    Hughes R, Margetts B, Practical Public Health Nutrition, Wiley Blackwell. 2016 ISBN 9781444329223 2.    Dwyer J, Zhanming L, Thiessen V, Project management in health and community services – getting good ideas to work. 3rd edition. 2019. Routledge. ISBN: 9781760632816 3.    Bauman A, Nutbeam D, Evaluation in a nutshell, 3rd edition. 2022. McGraw Hill Australia, ISBN: 9781760427177

Recommended

1.    Hughes R, 2007. Competency development needs of the Australian public health nutrition workforces, Public Health Nutrition. 6(8):839-847. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PHN2003494 2.    Types of Evaluation in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs - RHIhub Toolkit (ruralhealthinfo.org)

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