Obesity Evaluation Toolkit: Resources for Evaluating Community-Level Obesity Prevention Efforts

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It is important for public health professionals to improve health equity through evaluation that engages participants and is culturally relevant.  Even minor improvements in evaluation will enhance the effectiveness of obesity prevention efforts in disadvantaged populations.

In 2013, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress, which provides a framework for planning, implementation, and evaluation of obesity prevention efforts.

Part of this report is the Obesity Evaluation Toolkit: Resources for Evaluating Community-Level Obesity Prevention Efforts, which provides the following six key steps and principles for community-level evaluation:

1. Design Stakeholder Involvement

2. Identify Resources for Monitoring and Summative Evaluation

3. Describe the Intervention’s Framework, Logic Model, or Theory of Change

4. Focus the Monitoring and Summative Evaluation Plan

5. Plan for Credible Methods

6. Synthesize and Generalize

Click here to access the Obesity Evaluation Toolkit.