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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 6, 775-776, December 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Evaluation in Health Promotion: Principles and Perspectives

Irving Rootman, Michael Goodstadt, Brian Hyndman, David V. McQueen, Louise Potvin, Jane Springett and Erio Ziglio (eds) WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen (2001) 533 pp. ISBN 92-890-1359-1

Keith Tones

HER UK Editor

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This compendious work on evaluation consists of 23 chapters incorporating contributions from 52 internationally recognized authors in the field of evaluation and health promotion. Reading it is a not insubstantial task—but certainly worth the effort.

The book, like Gaul, is divided into three main parts. One of these, labelled ‘Perspectives’, consists of eight chapters that offer a variety of valuable insights into key issues that are at the heart of contemporary debate about evaluating health promotion initiatives. The authors clearly demonstrate one of the main reasons why the ‘gold standard’, randomized controlled trial is entirely inappropriate to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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