Roos N P
J Community Health. 1975 Fall;1(1):39-51. doi: 10.1007/BF01318942.
This paper examines the data requirements for impact evaluation in the light of recent federal efforts to improve the evaluation of health programs. Typically, new health programs are launched before there is sufficient time or administrative interest in devising appropriate evaluation methodology. Therefore, any evaluation of such a program must be designed retrospectively. We argue that the best and typically only sources of data appropriate for such evaluations are pre-existing administrative statistics and archival records. The potential and limitations of these data sources are reviewed.
本文结合联邦政府近期为改进健康项目评估所做的努力，审视了影响评估的数据需求。通常情况下，新的健康项目在有足够时间或行政部门有兴趣设计适当的评估方法之前就已启动。因此，对此类项目的任何评估都必须进行回顾性设计。我们认为，适用于此类评估的最佳且通常是唯一的数据来源是现有的行政统计数据和档案记录。本文回顾了这些数据来源的潜力和局限性。
