Evaluating health inequity interventions: Applying a contextual (external) validity framework to programs funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-203

  Phillips, Kaye ^a,b   Müller Clemm, Werner ^a,b   Ysselstein, Margaretha ^a,b   Sachs, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Context; Contextual validity; External validity; Health inequities; Health inequity interventions; Program evaluation; Validity

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

CANADA;

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANADA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878086026     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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