Kimberly Thomson & Oralia Gómez-Ramírez - Lessons from Evaluating the Impact of Upstream Health Promotion Initiatives

Public health interventions that aim to reduce adverse health outcomes and promote population health and well-being are more likely to be effective when they address the conditions in which people are born, live, and age – known as the social determinants of health. Increasingly more public health initiatives in BC are striving to make changes at this “upstream” level that includes social policies, systems, and structures. Yet evaluating the impacts of such initiatives poses methodological challenges, including how to make causal attributions. This presentation describes the challenges and opportunities of evaluating upstream health promotion initiatives using two case studies of evaluation plans being developed in Population and Public Health at the BCCDC and Fraser Health.

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10/12/2023 6:50:00 PM