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Course description

This course is built around a fieldwork project. Supporting classroom sessions cover: introduction to evaluation of health service programs; making the aims & objectives of programs explicit; translating objectives into quantifiable targets; setting realistic targets: benchmarking, consensus & other methods; structure, process, impact & outcome; designing tools for programs evaluation; practicalities of mixed methods approaches to evaluation; collection & coding of data; analysis of primary & routinely-compiled data; barriers to change in complex organisations; leadership styles; pathways to successful change; oral presentations.