David Grembowski, Ph.D., M.A., is a professor in the Department of Health Ser- vices in the School of Public Health and the Department of Oral Health Sciences in the School of Dentistry, and adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Washington. He has taught health program evaluation to graduate students for more than twenty years. His evaluation interests are prevention, the performance of health programs and health care systems, survey research methods, and the social determinants of population health. His other work has examined efforts to improve quality by increasing access to care in integrated delivery systems; pharmacy outreach to provide statins preventively to patients with diabetes; managed care and physician referrals; managed care and patient-physician relationships and physician job satisfaction; cost-effectiveness of preventive services for older adults; cost-sharing and seeing out-of-network physicians; social gradients in oral health; local health department spending and racial/ethnic disparities in mortality rates; fluoridation effects on oral health and dental demand; financial incentives and dentist adoption of preventive technologies; effects of dental insurance on dental demand; and the link between mother and child access to dental care.
Introduction
Health Program Evaluation
Is It Worth It?
The Evaluation Process
Evaluation as a 3-Act Play
Act I: Asking the Question
Developing Evaluation Questions
Act II: Answering the Question
Scene I: Designing the Evaluation
Evaluation of Program Impacts
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Evaluation of Program Implementation
Act II: Answering the Question
Scene II: Planning and Conducting the Evaluation
Population and Sampling
Measurement and Data Collection
Data Analysis
Act III: Use of the Answers in Decision-Making
Scene I: Translate Answers Back into Policy Language and Developing
Recommendations
Scene II: Development of Dissemination Plan
Scene III: Use of the Answers
Epilogue
