Health Education Research, Vol. 15, No. 1, 109-116,
February 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Promising community-level indicators for evaluating cardiovascular health-promotion programs
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195,
1 Division of Chronic Disease Control and Community Intervention, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30341, and
2 Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Rigorous evaluation of community-based programs can be costly, particularly when a representative sample of all members of the community are surveyed in order to assess the impact of a program on individual health behavior. Community-level indicators (CLIs), which are based on observations of aspects of the community other than those associated with individuals, may serve to supplement individual-level measures in the evaluation of community-based programs or in some cases provide a lower-cost alternative to individual-level measures. Because they are often based on observations of the community environment, CLIs also provide a way of measuring environmental changes—often an intermediate goal of community-based programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention convened a panel of experts knowledgeable about community-based program evaluation and cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention to develop a list of CLIs, and rate their feasibility, reliability and validity. The indicators developed by the panel covered tobacco use, physical activity, diet and a fourth group that were considered `cross-cutting' because they related to all three behaviors. The indicators were subdivided into policy and regulation, information, environmental change, and behavioral outcome. For example, policy and regulation indicators included laws and ordinances on tobacco use, policies on physical education, and guidelines for menu and food preparation. These indicators provide a good starting point for communities interested in tracking CVD-related outcomes at the community level.
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