Newbill S, Wickman A, Brown C, Helitzer D
Director, Folkstone: Evaluation Anthropology and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, USA.
Southwest Center for Agricultural Injury Prevention and Education, USA.
J Community Med Health Educ. 2017;7:522. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000522. Epub 2017 May 8.
Large programmatic grants advance the missions of funding agencies or organizations. This article describes the programmatic impact of using "hierarchical" logic models in two Centers funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that were designed to achieve NIOSH goals. Such models are supportive of priority setting, policy implementation, and effective evaluation.
Two NIOSH Centers, an Agricultural Center and an Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center, used the same hierarchical logic model process to support the NIOSH programmatic goal of improving worker health and safety in their respective occupational categories. The logic model development processes were led by the same evaluator.
Case studies describe the utilization of "hierarchical" logic models: in each case, NIOSH was the "grandparent", the Center was its descendant (parent) and the cores were the children. This lineage was articulated through the Center-wide logic model and through the logic model of each of its core programmatic areas (core). The Center-wide logic model ensured that the Center's goals, and the intended outcomes and impact of its work were linked to the mission and goals of NIOSH. Each core's logic model articulated how its goals, activities, and outcomes were specifically linked to the Center-wide model.
A hierarchical logic model process ensures that the objectives of the funding agency or organization are addressed, and enables stakeholders to articulate the linkages between each layer. This facilitates the process of developing, implementing and evaluating programmatic elements within the framework of strategic planning.
大型项目资助推动了资助机构或组织的使命。本文描述了在美国国家职业安全与健康研究所（NIOSH）资助的两个中心使用“分层”逻辑模型的项目影响，这两个中心旨在实现NIOSH的目标。此类模型有助于确定优先事项、实施政策和进行有效评估。
NIOSH的两个中心，即农业中心和职业安全与健康教育及研究中心，采用相同的分层逻辑模型流程，以支持NIOSH在各自职业类别中改善工人健康与安全的项目目标。逻辑模型的开发流程由同一位评估人员主导。
案例研究描述了“分层”逻辑模型的应用：在每个案例中，NIOSH是“祖父母”，中心是其后代（父母），核心项目是“子女”。这种谱系通过全中心逻辑模型以及每个核心项目领域（核心）的逻辑模型得以阐明。全中心逻辑模型确保了中心的目标及其工作的预期成果和影响与NIOSH的使命和目标相联系。每个核心项目的逻辑模型阐明了其目标、活动和成果如何具体与全中心模型相联系。
分层逻辑模型流程确保了资助机构或组织的目标得以实现，并使利益相关者能够阐明各层之间的联系。这有助于在战略规划框架内制定、实施和评估项目要素的过程。
