This comprehensive introduction to evaluation of health promotion, health education, and disease programs features non-setting-specific discussion for health education, health promotion, and allied health fields. A new chapter on qualitative evaluation has been added for the third edition, and many new research examples and case studies have been included.
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About the Author:
Richard Windsor received his BS with honors (1969) in Health Education at Morgan State College and an MS (1970) and PhD (1972) in health education from the University of Illinois. He was an Assistant Professor; College of Education at Ohio State University (1972 to 1975) .He received a post-doctoral fellowship and an MPH in maternal and child health, and was an Assistant Professor at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins U. (1976-1977). He was Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior School of Public Health; University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) (1977 to 1991) and Professor (1994-2000).He was a Senior Scientist (1978-1991) and Associate Director for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Alabama at the UAB School of Medicine (1987-1991). He was Associate Director for Prevention, Education and Control of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute NIH-U.S. Public Health Service and member of the Senior Executive Services of the U.S. government. (1991-1993). He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-PI of 10 randomized clinical trials and 12 other research studies funded by the NIH, CDC and NCHSR to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of public health education methods. He has been an advisor to the NICHD, NCI, NHLBI, IOM, CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and to the WHO, Ministries of Health of Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, and the Peoples Republic of China. He has been Vice-President and President (1979-1981) of the Society for Publication Health Education (SOPHE) and is a distinguished SOPHE fellow (1999). He is a recipient of the C. Everett Koop Award (1997) for his scientific and programmatic leadership of the Smoking Cessation or Reduction in Pregnancy (SCRIPT) Model. SCRIPT has been cited by the AHCPR (1996) and AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines (2000) as the most effective and cost-effective treatment methods for patients in Medicaid maternity care.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0072530340
- ISBN 13 9780072530346
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages352