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Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care
A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach
Edited by:
- Steven Sheingold - Department of Health and Human Services, USA
- Anupa Bir - RTI International, USA
October 2019 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need.
Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports. This graduate-level text will appeal to those interested in cutting-edge health program and health policy evaluation in this era of health care innovation. Editors Steven Sheingold and Anupa Bir’s core text focuses on quantitative, qualitative, and meta-analytic approaches to analysis, providing a guide for both those executing evaluations and those using the data to make policy decisions. It is designed to provide real-world applications within health policy to make learning more accessible and relevant, and to highlight the remaining challenges for using evidence to develop policy.
Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports. This graduate-level text will appeal to those interested in cutting-edge health program and health policy evaluation in this era of health care innovation. Editors Steven Sheingold and Anupa Bir’s core text focuses on quantitative, qualitative, and meta-analytic approaches to analysis, providing a guide for both those executing evaluations and those using the data to make policy decisions. It is designed to provide real-world applications within health policy to make learning more accessible and relevant, and to highlight the remaining challenges for using evidence to develop policy.
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
PART I. SETTING UP FOR EVALUATION
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Setting the Stage
Chapter 3. Measurement and Data
PART II. EVALUATION METHODS
Chapter 4. Causality and Real-World Evaluation
Chapter 5. Randomized Designs
Chapter 6. Quasi-experimental Methods: Propensity Score Techniques
Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental Methods: Regression Modeling and Analysis
Chapter 8. Treatment Effect Variations Among the Treatment Group
Chapter 9. The Impact of Organizational Context on Heterogeneity of Outcomes: Lessons for Implementation Science
PART III. MAKING EVALUATION MORE RELEVANT TO POLICY
Chapter 10. Evaluation Model Case Study: The Learning System at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Chapter 11. Program Monitoring: Aligning Decision Making With Evaluation
Chapter 12. Alternative Ways of Analyzing Data in Rapid-Cycle Evaluation
Chapter 13. Synthesizing Evaluation Findings
Chapter 14. Decision Making Using Evaluation Results
Chapter 15. Communicating Research and Evaluation Results to Policymakers
Appendix A: The Primer Measure Set
Appendix B: Quasi-experimental Methods That Correct for Selection Bias: Further Comments and Mathematical Derivations
Index
Supplements
Instructor Resource Site
study.sagepub.com/sheingold1e
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- Lecture Notes, including Outline and Objectives, which may be used for lecture and/or student handouts.
- Case studies from SAGE Research Methods accompanied by critical thinking/discussion questions.
- Tables and figures from the printed book are available in an easily-downloadable format for use in papers, hand-outs, and presentations.
Student Study Site
Open-access Student Resources include case studies from SAGE Research Methods accompanied by critical thinking/discussion questions.
Open-access Student Resources include case studies from SAGE Research Methods accompanied by critical thinking/discussion questions.
“This text offers a general introduction to the process and methods used to conduct rigorous and timely evaluations of health policies and programs using real-world examples. It would make an excellent text for a program evaluation course.”
University of Iowa
“A must read for anyone interested in monitoring and evaluation! The text does a great job addressing the important ingredients for a successful evaluation.”
Barry University
“Evaluating health policies and programs can be a very challenging process because the evaluation itself is so often an afterthought, leading to a variety of data issues that can produce biased results and poor policy decisions. This book provides an outstanding–yet highly accessible–overview of a wide variety of methods that evaluators can use to minimize these biases and generate robust evidence for decision-makers.”
University of Alabama at Birmingham