Advancing Health Equity
A reflection tool for organizations, programs, and individuals committed to equity
You have now completed the Evidence-Based Decision Making & Health Equity Toolkit.
The next page includes all citations for the Toolkit.
Beginning the Evaluation
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What is the agency culture around evaluation? What are we currently using to evaluate our health equity work?
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Who are the stakeholders in this intervention? What roles (including in decision making) will they have? How have you involved stakeholders in the development of program objectives and evaluation questions? 7
Data Collection
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How can our sampling plan be designed or modified to answer our health equity-oriented evaluation question(s)? 1
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How can we use multiple sources of data collection to get varying perspectives on the problem and solution? 1
Process Evaluation
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What are the mechanisms we can put in place to continually ask: Is this working? Is this doing what we want it to do? Are inequities decreasing? 7
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Does our process evaluation allow us to understand the key factors that influenced the outcomes of our efforts in underserved communities? 1
Outcomes
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What actions do we need to take to improve or enhance our evaluation plan to understand our effects on health equity (e.g., have inequities decreased, increased, or remained the same)? 1
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How can we structure our evaluation processes to understand the long-term effects of our intervention? 1
Findings
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Have we asked for the affected community’s interpretation of our findings?
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Can we present findings as a story or narrative that helps change people’s understanding of what creates health?
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How and where do we typically disseminate our evaluation findings? 1
Integrating health equity into evaluation provides a more comprehensive understanding of the impact(s) being made. Specifically, an evaluation without health equity may reveal overall improvement in health, but overlook that specific health inequities are widening. In this module, the key questions focus on all aspects of evaluation, from start to finish, to advance health equity efforts.
