Process evaluation: Understanding how and why interventions work

Evaluating Health Promotion: Practice and Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ellard, David ^a   Parsons, Suzanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b PICKER INSTITUTE EUROPE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health interventions; Health program implementation; Health promotion; Process evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875255877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199569298.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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