Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care

"Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care appeals to students, evaluators, and instructors interested cutting-edge health care and health policy evaluation in this era of health care innovation. This core, graduate-level text for the current health care evaluation landscape explores the the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation evidence and reports. The 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. Starting with a chapter on evaluation planning, this text walks readers through measurement and causality, key foundations for any evaluations. The text then proceeds in order of research steps, moving from the design and analysis phase with randomized designs, quasi-experimental designs, regression modeling, treatment effects, and implementation science to policy-relevant research techniques, covering program monitoring, alternative methods for rapid-cycle evaluation, meta-analysis, and data-driven decision making. A special chapter on disseminating research findings to policy makers emphasizes this crucial, final step. Pedagogical features like learning objectives, discussion questions, real-world examples, and practice data and code make this easy to use in a classroom setting, while applications and modern methodological approaches make the book useful in evaluation settings. This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need"--