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TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of Health in All Policies
T2 - Concept, theory and application
AU - Baum, Fran
AU - Lawless, Angela
AU - Delany, Toni
AU - Macdougall, Colin
AU - Williams, Carmel
AU - Broderick, Danny
AU - Wildgoose, Deborah
AU - Harris, Elizabeth
AU - McDermott, Dennis
AU - Kickbusch, Ilona
AU - Popay, Jennie
AU - Marmot, Michael
PY - 2014/6/1
Y1 - 2014/6/1
N2 - This article describes some of the crucial theoretical, methodological and practical issues that need to be considered when evaluating Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. The approaches that have been applied to evaluate HiAP in South Australia are drawn upon as case studies, and early findings from this evaluative research are provided. The South Australian evaluation of HiAP is based on a close partnership between researchers and public servants. The article describes the South Australian HiAP research partnership and considers its benefits and drawbacks in terms of the impact on the scope of the research, the types of evidence that can be collected and the implications for knowledge transfer. This partnership evolved from the conduct of process evaluations and is continuing to develop through joint collaboration on an Australian National Health & Medical Research Council grant. The South Australian research is not seeking to establish causality through statistical tests of correlations, but instead by creating a 'burden of evidence' which supports logically coherent chains of relations. These chains emerge through contrasting and comparing findings from many relevant and extant forms of evidence. As such, program logic is being used to attribute policy change to eventual health outcomes. The article presents the preliminary program logic model and describes the early work of applying the program logic approach to HiAP. The article concludes with an assessment of factors that have accounted for HiAP being sustained in South Australia from 2008 to 2013.
AB - This article describes some of the crucial theoretical, methodological and practical issues that need to be considered when evaluating Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiatives. The approaches that have been applied to evaluate HiAP in South Australia are drawn upon as case studies, and early findings from this evaluative research are provided. The South Australian evaluation of HiAP is based on a close partnership between researchers and public servants. The article describes the South Australian HiAP research partnership and considers its benefits and drawbacks in terms of the impact on the scope of the research, the types of evidence that can be collected and the implications for knowledge transfer. This partnership evolved from the conduct of process evaluations and is continuing to develop through joint collaboration on an Australian National Health & Medical Research Council grant. The South Australian research is not seeking to establish causality through statistical tests of correlations, but instead by creating a 'burden of evidence' which supports logically coherent chains of relations. These chains emerge through contrasting and comparing findings from many relevant and extant forms of evidence. As such, program logic is being used to attribute policy change to eventual health outcomes. The article presents the preliminary program logic model and describes the early work of applying the program logic approach to HiAP. The article concludes with an assessment of factors that have accounted for HiAP being sustained in South Australia from 2008 to 2013.
KW - evaluation
KW - Health in All Policies
KW - policy
KW - social determinants of health
U2 - 10.1093/heapro/dau032
DO - 10.1093/heapro/dau032
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25217350
AN - SCOPUS:84908293603
VL - 29
SP - i130-i142
JO - Health Promotion International
JF - Health Promotion International
SN - 0957-4824
IS - suppl_1
ER -