Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them
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Pragmatic, formative process evaluations of complex interventions and why we need more of them.
Recently published guidance on process evaluations by the Medical Research Council’s (MRC’s) Population Health Sciences Research Network (PHSRN) marks a significant advance in the evaluation of complex public health interventions. 2 In presenting programmes as not just a set of mechanisms of change across multiple socioecological domains, but as an interaction of theory, context and implementat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0143-005X,1470-2738
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-204806