Kane, Ros and Wellings, Kaye and Free, Caroline and Goodrich, Joanna (2000) Uses of routine data sets in the evaluation of health promotion interventions: opportunities and limitations. Health Education, 100 (1). pp. 33-41. ISSN 0965-4283

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Abstract

Practitioners are under constant pressure to evaluate their work. In the current environment, health professionals frequently have limited time and financial resources, and opportunities for using existing data sets must be exploited. Routinely collected data provide a potentially useful resource for use in this context. The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential uses of routinely collected data in the evaluation of health promotion interventions. Opportunities for and limitations of routine data are discussed, drawing on examples primarily from the field of sexual health, to demonstrate principles which are also relevant in other areas of health care.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Practitioners are under constant pressure to evaluate their work. In the current environment, health professionals frequently have limited time and financial resources, and opportunities for using existing data sets must be exploited. Routinely collected data provide a potentially useful resource for use in this context. The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential uses of routinely collected data in the evaluation of health promotion interventions. Opportunities for and limitations of routine data are discussed, drawing on examples primarily from the field of sexual health, to demonstrate principles which are also relevant in other areas of health care.
Keywords:	Data retrieval, Health Data, Data collection
Subjects:	A Medicine and Dentistry > A990 Medicine and Dentistry not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	College of Social Sciences > Faculty of Health & Social Sciences > Lincoln School of Health & Social Care
Depositing User:	Ros Kane
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2009 13:54
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2013 08:32
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/1887

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