251803 Evaluation of policy change efforts: Lessons learned

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 5:30 PM

Jennifer Bolduc , San Antonio Regional Campus, UT School of Public Health, San Antonio, TX
Lua Zawacki, MPH , Communities Putting Prevention to Work - Evaluation, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Jennifer Hixon, MPH , School of Public Health, San Antonio Regional Campus, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Maia Ingram, MPH , Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies and Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, DrPH , Management Policy and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, San Antonio, TX
Jennifer L. Shaw, MAP, MPH, DrPH , School of Public Health, San Antonio Regional Campus, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Rebecca Drummond, MA , Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
     
Evaluation of a broad coalition-based policy change program such as CPPW requires the rapid development of new relationships between a variety of community sectors. In cities with wide health disparities, inequalities in power structures and historically unequal relationships can complicate the development of broad based coalitions. Cluster 1 of the CPPW project pools 9 cities with a higher density of Hispanic residents with a combined average of 33.35% Hispanic residents. This roundtable discussion will be open to other invited communities with large Hispanic populations to share insights and lessons learned from developing evaluation frameworks to assess policy and environmental change in CPPW communities.

Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Attendees will be able to identify common themes in evaluation of broad based policy change efforts Attendees will describe the challenges and benefits of different evaluation frameworks Attendees will discuss and describe the challenge of evaluation in communities with wide health disparities and inequalities in power

Keywords: Latino Health, Evaluation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified because I am an evaluator of a community-wide obesity prevention program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

See more of: Putting Prevention to Work (CCPW) in Latino Communities
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