Indicators for evaluating the healthy cities strategy in colombia

Objectives: The work that is presented is the first phase of a scale development study. The objectives are: selecting, developing and evaluating indi-cators for the evaluation of the healthy cities project in Colombia, in order to offer the bases for the construction of a measurement scale. Methods: The project was executed from January 2001 to August 2002. A validation by construct and an assessment of indicators, according to their importance, data availability and formulation were carried out. A theoretical heuristic model for evaluating the Colombian Healthy Cities Project was developed;  based on these model 128 indicators were defined. A preliminary instrument was then made and evaluated by experts in the strategy. A test was carried out in five cities in order to test data availability and formulation. Results: The final results are a heuristic model for the evaluation of the project and an evaluation of each indicator. Conclusions: The final results are not finished. A greater effort is needed for developing good heuristic models and for building instruments for assessing the healthy cities project in Colombia.

• Autores: Cabarcas Montes, Fabio E.; Agudelo Calderón, Carlos A.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2003
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/31801
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/31801; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/21881/
• Palabra clave: Promoción de la salud; ciudad saludable; estudios de Evaluación; evaluación de programas; escalas; Health promotion; evaluation studies; program evaluation; scales
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional