Health development is what public health professionals attempt to attain. According to the CDC (1999), “effective program evaluation is a systematic way to improve and account for public health actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate”. The six methodological steps from the proposed framework that will be used to evaluate the Tuskegee case study include: description of the public health intervention, specification and modification of the normative criteria, evaluation of the public health intervention, overall evaluation or synthesis of the public health intervention, generating recommendations, and monitoring. Abiding by to these six steps will assist with the understanding of a program’s background
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Description of the public health intervention. This first step states “any ethical analysis must start with a thorough characterization of the public health intervention, the context in which it will be applied, and possible alternative interventions to achieve the public health goal that might minimize potential negative impact on public health, individual autonomy, equity, or efficiency” (Marckmann et al, 2015). Program descriptions reveal the mission and intentions of the intervention being …show more content…
After describing the intervention, the criteria listed (expected health benefits/harm for the population, the impact on autonomy and equity, and the expected efficiency) require further specification for the intervention at hand. The relevance of each one of these criteria needs to be clarified
Evaluation of the Public Health Intervention. In step three we must evaluate the public health intervention based on each of the five normative criteria.
Synthesis: Overall Evaluation of the Public Health Intervention. This step simply means that we need to balance and integrate the five evaluations of step three to arrive at an overall evaluation of the public health intervention.
Generating Recommendations. In step five, recommendations need to be developed for the implementation of the public health intervention.
Monitoring. This step requires monitoring and re-evaluating the ethical implications are adequate and whether or not there are new ethical issues
Description of the public health intervention. This first step states “any ethical analysis must start with a thorough characterization of the public health intervention, the context in which it will be applied, and possible alternative interventions to achieve the public health goal that might minimize potential negative impact on public health, individual autonomy, equity, or efficiency” (Marckmann et al, 2015). Program descriptions reveal the mission and intentions of the intervention being …show more content…
After describing the intervention, the criteria listed (expected health benefits/harm for the population, the impact on autonomy and equity, and the expected efficiency) require further specification for the intervention at hand. The relevance of each one of these criteria needs to be clarified
Evaluation of the Public Health Intervention. In step three we must evaluate the public health intervention based on each of the five normative criteria.
Synthesis: Overall Evaluation of the Public Health Intervention. This step simply means that we need to balance and integrate the five evaluations of step three to arrive at an overall evaluation of the public health intervention.
Generating Recommendations. In step five, recommendations need to be developed for the implementation of the public health intervention.
Monitoring. This step requires monitoring and re-evaluating the ethical implications are adequate and whether or not there are new ethical issues