Effect evaluation of a comprehensive community intervention aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities in the Netherlands

To date, comprehensive community health projects have not been evaluated in terms of their effect at the individual level, because outcomes are usually not defined at this level. In a community health project in the Netherlands, evaluation outcome mapping, a technique derived from intervention mapping, was used to identify distal as well as proximal programme objectives from which outcome measures could be derived. The intervention took place in a deprived area, where community members themselves defined stress, lack of area safety and parenting problems as the health-related problems they wan... Mehr ...