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Haenssgen, Marco Johannes (2019) New impulses from international development for more comprehensive and balanced public engagement evaluation. Global Health Action . doi:10.1080/16549716.2019.1680067 (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1680067
Abstract
Public engagement in health research has gained popularity because of its potential to co-create knowledge, generate dialogue, and ground research in the priorities and realities of the target groups. However, public engagement that achieves these objectives could still entail unforeseen negative consequences or a wasteful use of resources. Although the evaluation of public engagement has evolved in recent years, project-specific idiosyncrasies prevent systematic and transparent assessments of success and failure.
This article introduces standard evaluation criteria from the field of development aid evaluation (effectiveness, efficiency, impact, relevance, sustainability) to promote more systematic and comprehensive evaluation practice. I apply these criteria to the public engagement component of a recent research project into antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use, and health behaviour in Thailand and Laos. Considering village-level engagement workshops, international exhibitions of photo narratives of traditional healing in northern Thailand, and social media communication, I demonstrate that activities that seem to achieve their objectives can still have problematic characteristics in other dimensions. I conclude that these five generic evaluation criteria can broaden our understanding of public engagement. Their more widespread use in evaluations can help build a more comprehensive and balanced evidence base, even if only a sample of public engagement projects and programmes can be evaluated systematically.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Health Action | ||||||
| Publisher: | Co-Action Publishing | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1654-9880 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 October 2019 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/16549716.2019.1680067 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Marco J Haenssgen | ||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council | ||||||
| Grant number: | ES/P00511X/1 | ||||||
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