Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Section 1: Health Promotion Evaluation in the Americas.Chapter 2: Health Promotion in the Americas: Divergent and Common Ground.Chapter 3: Practical Dilemmas for Health Promotion Evaluation.- Section 2: Issues in Health Promotion Evaluation: Fitting Evaluation Practice to Health Promotion.Chapter 4: Developing Evaluation Questions: Beyond the Technical Issues.Chapter 5: There is More to Methodology than Method.Chapter 6: A Realist Approach to the Systematic Review.Chapter 7: From Knowledge to Action: Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing the Use of Evaluation in Health Promotion Policies and Practices.- Section 3: Aligning Evaluation with Health Promotion Principles: Experiences from the Americas.Chapter 8: Figurative Thinking and Models: Tools for Participatory Evaluation.Chapter 9: Dilemmas in Health Promotion Evaluation: Participation and Empowerment.Chapter 10: Formative Evaluation and Community Empowerment among American Indian/ Alaska Natives.Chapter 11: Intersectoral Approaches to Health Promotion in Cities.Chapter 12: The Participatory Evaluation of Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities Initiatives in the Americas.Chapter 13: Evaluating Health Promotion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: An Integrated Local Development Project.Chapter 14: Multi-Strategy in the Evaluation of Health Promotion Community Interventions: an indicator of quality.Chapter 15: The Contribution of a Systematization Evaluative Approach to Implement a Health Promotion Project in Capela do Socorro, Sao Paulo, Brazil.Chapter 16: Issues in Evaluating Equity.Chapter 17: Context as a Fundamental Dimension of Health Promotion Evaluation.Chapter 18: Conclusion