Building Capacities to Evaluate Health Inequities: Some Lessons Learned from Evaluation Experiments in China, India and Chile

The World Health Organization defines health inequities as differences in health outcomes that are systematic, avoidable, and unjust; and the result of poor social policies, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics. This volume describes the role that evaluations can play in addressing health inequities. A key focus is on the types of capacities that need to be built to evaluate inequities.<br />Bringing alive these questions around evaluation capacities are theory and practice studies from China, Chile, and India.<br /><br />This volume: <br /> <ul> <li>Focuses on inequities in evaluation capacity building initiatives.</li> <li>Argues evaluations can be interventions themselves.</li> <li>Explores how evaluations can have influence in addressing inequities.</li> <li>Recognizes that innovations in evaluation capacity experiments are occurring in diverse countries and we have the opportunity to learn from such initiatives.</li> </ul> <br />This is the 154th issue in the <b>New Directions for Evaluation</b> series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.