Health Promotion Evaluation

According to the World Health Organization, health promotion can be defined as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health”. Health promotion focuses more on an extensive scope of social and environmental interventions rather than just a focus on individual behavior. Health promotion’s objectives are to enable people to improve their health by expanding their control over personal choices that impacts their health. This ultimately leads to better population and individual health outcomes. Health promotion is a vital tactic to improving population health and tackling problems that trigger substantial disease burdens in human communities.

In order to verify that a health promotion program has had the anticipated outcome, assessments need to occur that quantify pertinent positive changes in population health. It is not just satisfactory to execute a health promotion program. It is essential to know that the implemented program has made a difference in achieving the fundamental objectives of its intended

Efficient intersectoral collaborations will facilitate programs having a considerable effect on significant health markers in community populations. Evaluation is often conducted for accountability purposes. However, the benefits of evaluation are far more wide-reaching than just meeting accountability requirements. The measurement and assessment of health promotion outcomes are critical for evaluating the effectiveness of the program within the local community; determining whether it cost effective or not; and to determine if the program is doing what it was implemented to do. And if not quite, finding opportunities for improvement. It is also important because it facilitates the systematic documentation, distribution and promotion of best healthcare practices (Garrard et al