The Program Success Story: A Valuable Tool for Program Evaluation

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-331

  Lavinghouze, Rene ^a   Webb Price, Ann ^b   Smith, Kisha Ann ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Community Evaluation Solutions Inc ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

program evaluation; success stories; using evaluation results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NARRATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 38449092514     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907306408     Document Type: Article

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