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Evaluating ‘Health in All Policies’ in Norwegian Municipalities

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  • Ellen Strøm Synnevåg

    (Faculty of Social Science and History, Volda University College, 6101 Volda, Norway)

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The Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach has emerged as a central strategy for promoting health at local, regional, and state levels in different countries. Representing a complex and complicated strategy, evaluations of HIAP at the local level are scarce, and scholars call for more knowledge and critical discussions regarding how to evaluate at this level. In this conceptual paper, I discuss how summative and formative evaluation approaches might supplement each other when evaluating HiAP at the local level. First, I discuss the possibilities of using summative and formative evaluation of HiAP. Further, I discuss how formative-dialogue research might represent possibilities for evaluation by combining the two approaches. Finally, I ask if there has been a shift in the Norwegian evaluation discourse, from the promotion of summative evaluation alone to a combination of both summative and formative methods.

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  • Ellen Strøm Synnevåg, 2022. "Evaluating ‘Health in All Policies’ in Norwegian Municipalities," Societies, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-8, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:12:y:2022:i:3:p:92-:d:836423
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