Links to Related Sites

Alberta
• WellQuest - www.web.net/~tamhorne/

  Canada

• Benchmarking Public Health in Ontario - https://www.benchmarking-publichealth.on.ca/cfdocs/index2.cfm?file=home
• Canadian Evaluation Society - http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/
• Health Policy Research Bulletin of Health Canada: Health Promotion - Does it Work? - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iacb-dgiac/arad-draa/english/rmdd/bulletin/bulletin3.pdf
• Social Program Evaluation Group - http://educ.queensu.ca/~speg/
• The Evaluation and Best Practices Unit of the Centre for Health Promotion - www.utoronto.ca/chp/bestp.html
• United Way Centraids in Canada- http://www.unitedway.ca/english/

  International

• Action Evaluation in Theory and Practice - http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/action_evaluation.jsp
  Action Evaluation is a new method of evaluation, one that focuses on defining, monitoring, and assessing success.
• The American Evaluation Association has a Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation topical interest group that is dedicated to the exploration and refinement of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches to evaluation. www.stanford.edu/~davidf/empowermentevaluation.html
• American Evaluation Society - http://www.eval.org/
• BJA Evaluation website -- an electronic roadmap for evaluation.- http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/bja/181250.pdf
• Centre for AIDS Prevention Studies - http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/research/portfolio/2003/2003RP.pdf
  Tools to help with planning, designing and implementing evaluations for HIV prevention programs.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/epo/prevent.htm
  This site looks at the cost-returns related to 19 public health strategies.
• The Evaluation Center, located at Western Michigan University, is a research and development unit that provides national and international leadership for advancing the theory and practice of evaluation as applied to education and human services. www.wmich.edu/evalctr/
• Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health - www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4811a1.htm
• Health Promotion Publications and Resources (Australia) www.health.vic.gov.au/healthpromotion/resources_links/integrated.htm The Integrated health promotion resource kit, which includes the Integrated health promotion: A practice guide for service providers and the Measuring health promotion impacts:A guide to impact evaluation in integrated health promotion is now on-line. This resource has been produced by the Primary and Community Health Branch in partnership with the Public Health Branch (Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division, Victorian, Department of Human Services, Australia). These are practical resources to support agencies and organisations to plan, deliver and evaluate effective integrated health promotion programs.
  • Evidence-Based Health Promotion: Resources for Planning.
  • Frequently Asked Questions: Health Promotion Planning and Reporting within Community and Women's Health Services.
  • Information on Process Evaluation - Reach.
  • Integrated Health Promotion Interventions and Capacity Building Strategies - November 2002
• Innovation Network, Inc.'s site provides tools, instruction, guidance framework to create detailed program plans, evaluation plans and fund-raising plans. - http://www.innonet.org/
• The Measurement Group, in collaboration with PROTOTYPES, has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide help on evaluation and dissemination activities to 27 US demonstration programs on HIV/AIDS treatment services. - www.tmg-web.com/edc.htm
• Online Evaluation Resource Library - http://oerl.sri.com/
• Click on "Evaluation Resources" for a description of evaluation resources available directly from Sociometrics.ericae.net. A site listing many education-related links for assessment and evaluation. - http://www.socio.com/
• The Prevention Dividend Project EDD (Evaluation & Data Development) is proud to initiate a new series of publications entitled Evaluation Tool Kit. The objective of the series is to build evaluation capacity and knowledge throughout HRDC and its partner organisations by providing pertinent information about designing, planning and conducting an evaluation. Existing information about particular topics will be synthesised and made readily accessible in short, precise reports which are adapted to the evaluation of human resources development programs.
  • HRDC Evaluation Toolkit Series
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database
  • Participatory Evaluation Tools
  • Planning and Evaluating a Health Promotion Project - AU
• Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research Links to free on line books, manuals, articles on how to do evaluation and social research, including surveys, interviews, observations and more. Also links to research about research methods, free software, and sites on how to present data. This site also has a review of free statistical resources.- http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
• The United Way's Resource Network on Outcome Measurement provides a guide to resources for measuring program outcomes for health, human service, and youth- and family-serving agencies. Their manual, Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach, can be ordered here. - http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/
• Urban Institute - http://www.urban.org/

  Benchmarking Web Sites

• Association for Benchmarking Health Care URL: http://www.abhc.org/
  ABHC identifies leading industry practices and processes for exchange with member companies performance improvement.
• Assisting Performance Measurement Initiatives in Health and Human Services Programs -DHHS URL: http://aspe.hhs.gov/progsys/perfmeas/index.htm
  Online document: "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has embarked on a process to establish performance measures for all of its health and human service programs. Performance measurement is needed as a management tool to clarify goals, document the contribution toward achieving those goals, and document the benefits received from the investment in each program...The Institute of Medicine (IOM) undertook a 2-year study to examine the use of performance monitoring and develop sets of indicators that communities could use to promote the achievement of public health goals."
• "What is Benchmarking?" The Mining Company Management - Feature: 11/04/97 URL: http://management.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa110497.htm Online article - "Most of the early work in the area of benchmarking was done in manufacturing, like the example above. Now benchmarking is a management tool that is being applied almost anywhere."

Reviewed April 18, 2007