Evaluating the Impacts of Community-Campus Engagement on Population Health in Ottawa and Thunder Bay, Canada: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Contribution Analysis.

Background: Municipalities play a crucial role in population health due to their community connections and influence on health determinants. Community-campus engagement (CCE), that is, collaboration between academic institutions and communities, is a promising approach to addressing community health priorities. However, evidence of CCE's impact on population health remains limited.

The Use of Contribution Analysis in Evaluating Health Interventions: A Scoping Review.

Contribution Analysis (CA) is a promising theory-based evaluation approach for complex interventions, yet its application in health interventions remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we conducted a scoping review to examine the extent of such applications and the methodologies, strengths, and limitations of this approach in health programming. Our comprehensive search strategy was developed and used in 15 databases to identify peer-reviewed articles from 1999 to 2023 that focused on using CA to evaluate health interventions.

Translating Evaluation Policy Into Practice in Government Organizations.

Organizational evaluation policies describe how evaluation practices should be structured and implemented. As such, they provide key insights into organizational priorities and values regarding evaluation. However, the link between evaluation policies and how evaluation policies translate into concrete practices has seldom been explored until now.

Mapping the evaluation capacity building landscape: A bibliometric analysis of scholarly communities and themes.

Evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to attract attention. Over the past two decades, a broad literature has emerged-covering the dimensions, contexts, and practices of ECB. This article presents findings from a bibliometric analysis of ECB articles published in six evaluation journals from 2000 to 2019.

Laying a Solid Foundation for the Next Generation of Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings from an Integrative Review.

Evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to attract the attention and interest of scholars and practitioners. Over the years, models, frameworks, strategies, and practices related to ECB have been developed and implemented. Although ECB is highly contextual, the evolution of knowledge in this area depends on learning from past efforts in a structured approach.

Examining the competencies required by evaluation capacity builders in community-based organizations.

Increasing demand for evidence generated through program evaluation has led many community-based organizations (CBOs) to seek external support for evaluation capacity building (ECB). However, studies have yet to explore the essential competencies required by evaluation capacity builders working in the community sector. Our qualitative study aimed to examine the perceptions of ECB practitioners (n = 12) regarding essential competencies for building evaluation capacity in this sector.

Polyethlyene Glycol 200 Can Protect Rats Against Drug-Induced Kidney Toxicity Through Inhibition of the Renal Organic Anion Transporter 3.

MK-7680, a cyclic nucleotide prodrug, caused significant kidney tubule injury in female rats when administered orally at 1000 mg/kg/day for 2 weeks using 10% Polysorbate 80 as vehicle. However, kidney injury was absent when MK-7680 was administered at the same dose regimen using 100% Polyethylene Glycol 200 (PEG 200) as the vehicle. Subsequent investigations revealed that MK-7680 triphosphate concentrations in kidney were much lower in rats treated with MK-7680 using PEG 200 compared with 10% Polysorbate 80 vehicle, whereas plasma exposures of MK-7680 prodrug were similar.

[Improving the complementarity of patient education proposals: Experience feedback and recommendations].

Introduction: Implementing patient education (PE) in a defined geographic area, based on a population-based approach, implies using community resources according to a logic of complementarity, in order to mitigate the risk of rupture in patient care.

Methods: The PE Resource Centre for the Ile-de-France Region convened a multidisciplinary and multi-setting meeting attended by 45 participants in order to define the ways to improve the complementarity of all available PE resources, while taking into account the diversity of patients' needs. Three working groups successively explored three dimensions: structure, processes and outcomes, in order to assess this complementarity.

The influence of evaluation recommendations on instrumental and conceptual uses: A preliminary analysis.

Evaluation recommendations are sometimes included in evaluation reports to highlight specific actions to be taken to improve a program or to make other changes to its operational context. This preliminary study sought to examine evaluation recommendations drawn from 25 evaluation reports published by Canadian federal government departments and agencies, in order to examine the evaluation issues covered and the focus of the recommendations. Our results show that in keeping with policy requirements, the evaluation recommendations focused on program relevance, effectiveness and efficiency and economy.

[Cognitive dimensions of public health intervention: support for two primary healthcare projects in rural areas].

Some public health interventions are designed to support transformation of primary health care services, by transforming an individual structure into a collective healthcare structure. These interventions can be considered to be knowledge-generating processes, as they help the actors involved in development of a healthcare project to objectify and collectively share a common position on the future supply of primary care. This shared vision helps them to adopt a project approach in that this shared knowledge provides meaning to their action.

Application of an organizational evaluation capacity self-assessment instrument to different organizations: similarities and lessons learned.

Organizational evaluation capacity (EC) has received significant attention in the evaluation research literature in the past decade. Much of the focus has been on defining organizational evaluation capacity, which can be thought of as the competencies and structures required to conduct high-quality evaluation studies (capacity to do), as well as the organization's ability to integrate evaluation findings into its decision-making processes (capacity to use). This paper seeks to contribute to this growing body of knowledge through a multiple case study of EC across three different organizations (e.

Using hybrid models to support the development of organizational evaluation capacity: a case narrative.

The ongoing need for public sector organizations to enhance their internal evaluation capacity is increasingly resulting in the use of hybrid evaluation project models, where internal evaluators work with external contracted evaluators to complete evaluative work. This paper first seeks to identify what is currently known about internal evaluation through a synthesis of the literature in this area. It then presents a case narrative illustrating how internal and external evaluation approaches may be used together to strengthen an evaluation project and to develop the evaluation capacity of the organization.