TY - BOOK ID - 9997750 TI - Challenges in program evaluation of health interventions in developing countries AU - Wynn, Barbara O. AU - Dutta, Arindam AU - Nelson, Martha I. PY - 2005 SN - 1282451294 9786612451294 083304818X 0833038524 9780833048189 9780833038524 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., DB - UniCat KW - Communicable Disease Control -- methods. KW - Developing Countries. KW - Health Policy. KW - Medical policy. KW - Program Evaluation -- methods. KW - Vaccination -- methods. KW - World Health. KW - World health KW - Medical policy KW - Program Evaluation KW - Health Policy KW - Vaccination KW - Methods KW - World Health KW - Developing Countries KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - Immunotherapy, Active KW - Immunization KW - Public Policy KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Health KW - Quality of Health Care KW - International Cooperation KW - Public Health Practice KW - Evaluation Studies as Topic KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Social Control Policies KW - Population Characteristics KW - Health Services Administration KW - Public Health KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Primary Prevention KW - Internationality KW - Policy KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Preventive Health Services KW - Immunotherapy KW - Health Care KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Control, Formal KW - Immunologic Techniques KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Health Services KW - Immunomodulation KW - Sociology KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Biological Therapy KW - Therapeutics KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - World health. KW - Health care policy KW - Health policy KW - Medical care KW - Medicine and state KW - Policy, Medical KW - Public health KW - Public health policy KW - State and medicine KW - Global health KW - International health KW - Government policy KW - Science and state KW - Social policy KW - Medical geography KW - International cooperation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9997750 AB - Health interventions that are effective in developed countries may not be as effective in developing countries given the differing social, economic, cultural, and infrastructure factors that may affect how an intervention program is implemented and its outcomes. However, rigorous evaluation of public health intervention programs in various resource-limited settings is needed to determine which interventions will work most effectively and to spend scarce resources wisely. This monograph is intended to promote an understanding of why program evaluation is a critical component of any health inter ER -