Astrid Brousselle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 317304 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Astrid Brousselle |
| PRENOMES | Astrid |
| SOBRENOME | Brousselle |
| ASSINATURA | BROUSSELLE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4237-2518 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Arts-based evaluation of the Communities ChooseWell program
Arts-based evaluation is an effective and fun way to engage people and uncover meaningful, valid results. In this project, an arts-based approach was used to gain an understanding of the effects the Communities ChooseWell Program has had according to the Champions’ experiences. We wanted to identify what changes, if any, has Communities ChooseWell fostered through the past 10 years? This evaluation was completed using an arts-based approach which…
Foundations for a Utopia
“Considering that we have 10 years to radically transform our societies to make them sustainable and equitable, what would be the most important action that we should implement in our practice, as evaluators?” Nine experienced evaluators, representing a variety of practices, cultures, contexts, and genders, agreed to address this question. With this article, we explore how the evaluation field could help implement the foundations for achieving th…
Post-truth and pathways for evaluators
Post-truth relates to the combination of tactics of influence and opinion manipulation orchestrated by powerful economic and political interests, principally targeting initiatives or ideas with a transformative potential. Post-truth strategies express themselves in multiple tactics, which happen synchronously at varied levels and through different channels. Scientifically valid information is forced to compete with narratives which are designed t…
Planetary health
Addressing current environmental, social, health, and democratic challenges requires projects and evaluations to be conceptualized differently. This article proposes a pathway to creating rapid impact assessment tools that consider the dimensions that matter the most to ensure positive impacts for a thriving future. This work is based on three premises for evaluation practice, which needs to: contribute to a positive ecosystem, adopt a holistic p…
Arts-Based Evaluation
Arts-based evaluation is an effective way to engage people and uncover meaningful, valid results. In the project that was used to inform this article, an arts-based approach was used to gain an understanding of the effects the Communities ChooseWell Program has had according to the Champions’ experiences. Communities ChooseWell is an Alberta Recreation and Parks Association Program that promotes healthy eating and active living in communities acr…
Case Management Programs for Improving Integrated Care for Frequent Users of Healthcare Services
This study underscores the necessity of an experienced, knowledgeable and well-trained case manager with interpersonal skills to optimize CMP implementation such that patients are more proactive in their care and their outcomes improve
A theory-based approach to designing interventions for Planetary Health
The current existential crises crystallize an urgent need for us all to contribute to meeting international environmental and social commitments. The message is clear: we need to take action. However, one of the challenges for decision-makers leading the transition is the dearth of practical tools and approaches available. Even in our field, evaluations are still based on practices which systematically overlook important determinants of human hea…
What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners
Leading evaluation practitioners were asked about lessons from the recent 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Contributors emphasize the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate injustice. The role of the evaluation is questioned: what can evaluation be expected to do on its own and what requires collaboration across disciplines, professions and civil society – and acro…
Economic Analysis of the Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections
Background: Nosocomial infections (NIs) are among the main preventable healthcare adverse events. Like all countries, Canada and its provinces are affected by NIs. In 2004, Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) of Quebec instituted a mandatory surveillance NI program for the prevention and control (NIPC) in the hospitals of the province. One target of the MSSS 2015–2020 action plan is to assess the implementation, costs, effects, and retu…
Designing centralized waiting lists for attachment to a primary care provider
Access to a regular primary care provider is essential to quality care. In Canada, where 15 % of patients are unattached (i.e., without a regular provider), centralized waiting lists (CWLs) help attach patients to a primary care provider (family physician or nurse practitioner). Previous studies reveal mechanisms needed for CWLs to work, but focus mostly on CWLs for specialized health care. We aim to better understand how to design CWLs for unatt…
L’évaluation évolutive, de la théorie à la pratique
Quebec and Canadian organizations, communities, and professionals working collectively to address complex social issues in dynamic contexts are enthusiastically embracing social innovation. Some limitations in evaluating this innovation have been revealed by formative and summative evaluation approaches. Developmental evaluation (DE) could be a potential solution. This article combines scientific literature with the experience of experienced DE p…
How the design and implementation of centralized waiting lists influence their use and effect on access to healthcare - A realist review
CONTEXT: Many health systems have centralized waiting lists (CWLs), but there is limited evidence on CWL effectiveness and how to design and implement them. AIM: To understand how CWLs' design and implementation influence their use and effect on access to healthcare. METHODS: We conducted a realist review (n = 21 articles), extracting context-intervention-mechanism-outcome configurations to identify demi-regularities (i.e., recurring patterns of …
Evaluating complex interventions in real context
Case management programs for frequent users of healthcare services are complex interventions which implementation and application are challenging to evaluate. The aim of this article was to conduct a logic analysis to evaluate a case management program for frequent users of healthcare services. The study proceeded in three phases: 1) establishing causal links between the program's components by the construction of a logic model, 2) developing an …
Contribution analysis to analyze the effects of the health impact assessment at the local level
Current emergency response in montreal
Evaluation for planetary health
We are currently being challenged to urgently address the environmental crisis. Intervening in this complex ecology creates the need to adopt approaches that will reconcile natural and human systems, approaches for Planetary Health. In this article, we present a Planetary Health Framework as a conceptual dialogic approach for designing and evaluating interventions. Natural and human systems dimensions have been conceptualized in an integrated way…
Evaluators in the Anthropocene
In the last century, human-led activities have drastically altered natural systems. The environmental impacts of human activity are so deleterious to living species and our biosphere that geologists have named this new geological era the Anthropocene, from anthropos, human being. Responses to the Anthropocene era call for drastic changes in all domains of activity. As evaluators, we claim to work for social betterment. We have a responsibility to…
Beyond Covid‐19
Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID‐19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice. This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the a…
Planetary health
That the insufficient response to climate change and pollution is jeopardising human life and livelihood,1Watts N Amann M Ayeb-Karlsson S et al.The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health.Lancet. 2018; 391: 581-630Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (584) Google Scholar accounting for 7 million deaths annually,2WHO9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted …
Area deprivation and attachment to a general practitioner through centralized waiting lists
Our findings suggest that there are socio-economic inequities in attachment to a GP through centralized waiting lists. Policy makers should take these findings into consideration to adjust centralized waiting list processes to avoid further exacerbation of health inequities
Linking Evaluation and Spending Reviews
The global financial crisis in 2008 was a significant watershed for governments everywhere. Diminished prospects for growth coupled with continuing demands for government interventions and chronic constraints on resources, prompted in part by the widespread adoption of variants of neo-liberalism (constrain resources to limit spending and shrink governments), have created fiscal environments where rationing expenditures among programs and policies…
Regards sur l’expérience de la Commission de révision permanente des programmes au Québec
Cet article s’intéresse aux travaux effectués par la Commission de révision permanente des programmes (CRPP) au Québec. Les auteurs font état de ses réalisations, de ses recommandations et de son influence sur les programmes publics. L’analyse s’appuie sur une revue documentaire (littérature grise, rapports, revue de presse). Les constats qui se dégagent de cette démarche d’analyse soulèvent de nombreuses questions quant à la nature de cet exerci…
Theory-based evaluations
In this article we defend the idea that theory-based evaluations—contribution analysis, logic analysis, and realist evaluation—are complementary components of a new theory in evaluation. We also posit that we are currently observing the emergence of a fifth generation in evaluation: the explanation generation. Theory-based evaluations have featured prominently in the discourse of evaluators since the mid-1980s. They have developed mainly in respo…
A sociogram is worth a thousand words
This article proposes an innovative method for the visual analysis of narrative data that involves three steps: transforming narrative data into relational data, creating two-mode networks displayed with graph optimization algorithms derived from social network analysis (SNA), and visually analyzing sociograms. We argue that understanding how actors and their opinions constitute a network-like structure opens up promising avenues for interpreting…
Comment évaluer les effets des évaluations d’impact sur la santé
Health impact assessments (HIA) allow the potential impact of non-health-related actions (policy, project, program) on health to be analyzed. For example, municipal projects, for urban renewal or urban planning, have an impact on health drivers relating to the created environment, and thus, on public health. In the province of Quebec, the government and affiliated organizations have to comment on potential impacts; they use HIAs to ensure health …
Evaluation models and evaluation use
The use of evaluation results is at the core of evaluation theory and practice. Major debates in the field have emphasized the importance of both the evaluator's role and the evaluation process itself in fostering evaluation use. A recent systematic review of interventions aimed at influencing policy-making or organizational behavior through knowledge exchange offers a new perspective on evaluation use. We propose here a framework for better unde…
Evaluators in the Anthropocene
In the last century, human-led activities have drastically altered natural systems. The environmental impacts of human activity are so deleterious to living species and our biosphere that geologists have named this new geological era the Anthropocene, from anthropos, human being. Responses to the Anthropocene era call for drastic changes in all domains of activity. As evaluators, we claim to work for social betterment. We have a responsibility to…
Evaluation for planetary health
We are currently being challenged to urgently address the environmental crisis. Intervening in this complex ecology creates the need to adopt approaches that will reconcile natural and human systems, approaches for Planetary Health. In this article, we present a Planetary Health Framework as a conceptual dialogic approach for designing and evaluating interventions. Natural and human systems dimensions have been conceptualized in an integrated way…
Beyond Covid‐19
Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID‐19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice. This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the a…
Using Logic Analysis to Evaluate Knowledge Transfer Initiatives
Models that shift more responsibility onto researchers for the process of incorporating research results into decision-making have greatly gained in popularity during the past two decades. This shift has created a new area of research to identify the best ways to transfer academic results into the organizational and political arenas. However, evaluating the utilization of information coming out of a knowledge transfer (KT) initiative remains an e…
Theory-based evaluations
In this article we defend the idea that theory-based evaluations—contribution analysis, logic analysis, and realist evaluation—are complementary components of a new theory in evaluation. We also posit that we are currently observing the emergence of a fifth generation in evaluation: the explanation generation. Theory-based evaluations have featured prominently in the discourse of evaluators since the mid-1980s. They have developed mainly in respo…
A sociogram is worth a thousand words
This article proposes an innovative method for the visual analysis of narrative data that involves three steps: transforming narrative data into relational data, creating two-mode networks displayed with graph optimization algorithms derived from social network analysis (SNA), and visually analyzing sociograms. We argue that understanding how actors and their opinions constitute a network-like structure opens up promising avenues for interpreting…
Vers une réconciliation des théories et de la pratique de l’évaluation, perspectives d’avenir
Evaluation practitioners encounter various questions while conducting evaluation projects. First, how can the evaluator define the intervention which is to be evaluated? Second, how should the evaluator consider the change? Third, how can use of the evaluation be encouraged? All three preoccupations have found answers in the theoretical developments of program evaluation, whether through implementation evaluation, intervention analysis or partici…
Managing Tensions Between Evaluation and Research
Developmental evaluation (DE), essentially conceptualized by Patton over the past 30 years, is a promising evaluative approach intended to support social innovation and the deployment of complex interventions. Its use is often justified by the complex nature of the interventions being evaluated and the need to produce useful results in real time. Despite its potential advantages, DE appears not to have been very widely used in research. The autho…
Economic evaluation to inform health care decision-making
Post-truth and pathways for evaluators
Post-truth relates to the combination of tactics of influence and opinion manipulation orchestrated by powerful economic and political interests, principally targeting initiatives or ideas with a transformative potential. Post-truth strategies express themselves in multiple tactics, which happen synchronously at varied levels and through different channels. Scientifically valid information is forced to compete with narratives which are designed t…
Case Management Programs for Improving Integrated Care for Frequent Users of Healthcare Services
This study underscores the necessity of an experienced, knowledgeable and well-trained case manager with interpersonal skills to optimize CMP implementation such that patients are more proactive in their care and their outcomes improve
Humanités environnementales
What Counts is not Falling… but Landing
Implementation evaluations, also called process evaluations, involve studying the development of programmes, and identifying and understanding their strengths and weaknesses. Undertaking an implementation evaluation offers insights into evaluation objectives, but does not help the researcher develop a research strategy. During the implementation analysis of the UNAIDS drug access initiative in Chile, the strategic analysis model developed by Croz…
Discours qui résistent à l’objectivation
When using interviews as a data-collection method, the evaluator must pay attention to the distortions that may be created. Evaluation is a political exercise and, in a political context, may favour the emergence of statements that represent resistance to objectifying their meaning. Based on the interviews conducted during the evaluation of the implementation of the UNAIDS Drug Access Initiative in Chile, the article illustrates different tactics…
Vers une réconciliation des théories et de la pratique de l’évaluation, perspectives d’avenir
Evaluation practitioners encounter various questions while conducting evaluation projects. First, how can the evaluator define the intervention which is to be evaluated? Second, how should the evaluator consider the change? Third, how can use of the evaluation be encouraged? All three preoccupations have found answers in the theoretical developments of program evaluation, whether through implementation evaluation, intervention analysis or partici…
Empowerment et évaluation
Evaluating Service Organization Models
Based on the example of the evaluation of service organization models, this article shows how a configurational approach overcomes the limits of traditional methods which for the most part have studied the individual components of various models considered independently of one another. These traditional methods have led to results (observed effects) that are difficult to interpret. The configurational approach, in contrast, is based on the hypoth…
Using Logic Analysis to Evaluate Knowledge Transfer Initiatives
Models that shift more responsibility onto researchers for the process of incorporating research results into decision-making have greatly gained in popularity during the past two decades. This shift has created a new area of research to identify the best ways to transfer academic results into the organizational and political arenas. However, evaluating the utilization of information coming out of a knowledge transfer (KT) initiative remains an e…
Modéliser les interventions
Pour évaluer une intervention, il faut commencer par la définir et par en établir le modèle logique, car il est rare que l’on dispose dès le départ d’un modèle explicite.Une intervention, qu’elle soit un programme ou une politique, peut être conçue comme un système organisé d’action qui comprend, dans un environnement donné : des agents (les acteurs) ; une structure (l’ensemble des ressources et des règles, qui échappent au contrôle des acteurs) …
L'évaluation
Quiconque juge évalue ; à ce titre, l'évaluation est universelle. Mais cette activité humaine peut être plus ou moins formalisée, et des stratégies peuvent être adoptées pour en augmenter la validité. Dans la pratique, la rigueur méthodologique autant que la réponse aux besoins réels des organismes demandeurs et le souci constant de l'utilisation de l'information produite sont les meilleurs garants d'une évaluation réussie. Exhaustif et pragmatiq…
Economic evaluation to inform health care decision-making
Logic Analysis
Evaluating complex interventions requires an understanding of the program's logic of action. Logic analysis, a specific type of program theory evaluation based on scientific knowledge, can help identify either the critical conditions for achieving desired outcomes or alternative interventions for that purpose. In this article, we outline the principles of logic analysis and its roots. We then illustrate its use with an actual evaluation case. Fin…
Évaluer une intervention complexe
Theoretically, evaluation should help decision-makers address contemporary health system challenges. Paradoxically, the use of evaluation results by decision-makers remains poor, despite rapid development in the evaluation field. The level of use depends on the evaluator’s ability to account for the complexity of health-care systems. The complex nature of an intervention often compels evaluators to adopt unconventional approaches to account for t…
En quoi la complexité a-t-elle des répercussions sur l’évaluation? Introduction au numéro spécial
How Does Complexity Impact Evaluation? An Introduction to the Special Issue
In recent years, the evaluation of complex interventions has been of great interest to members of the evaluation community. In this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, we explore how evaluators, in their practice, approach the evaluation of complex interventions. The aim of this issue is not to provide exhaustive coverage of all the different ways of evaluating complex interventions, but rather to inform practitioners on …
Evaluation models and evaluation use
The use of evaluation results is at the core of evaluation theory and practice. Major debates in the field have emphasized the importance of both the evaluator's role and the evaluation process itself in fostering evaluation use. A recent systematic review of interventions aimed at influencing policy-making or organizational behavior through knowledge exchange offers a new perspective on evaluation use. We propose here a framework for better unde…
Les défis de l’évaluation développementale en recherche
Developmental evaluation (DE), an approach developed by Patton to support the implementation of innovations, remains relatively untested in research. This article describes an attempt to apply DE as part of an implementation study of a health-promoting hospital project in a university hospital. The article highlights the dichotomous demands of academic research and evaluation use inherent in applying DE from a research perspective, and analyzes t…
Using the Results of Economic Evaluations of Public Health Interventions
Faced with the combined pressures of economic recession and growing healthcare costs, public health administrators recognize the value of using economic arguments to justify public health interventions. Given the expense and the time involved in conducting new economic evaluations, decision-makers regularly speculate on the possibility of using results from studies done in a different context. This article analyzes the potential for using the res…
Managing Tensions Between Evaluation and Research
Developmental evaluation (DE), essentially conceptualized by Patton over the past 30 years, is a promising evaluative approach intended to support social innovation and the deployment of complex interventions. Its use is often justified by the complex nature of the interventions being evaluated and the need to produce useful results in real time. Despite its potential advantages, DE appears not to have been very widely used in research. The autho…
Learning reflexively from a health promotion professional development program in Canada
In recent decades, reflexivity has received much attention in the professional education and training literature, especially in the public health and health promotion fields. Despite general agreement on the importance of reflexivity, there appears to be no consensus on how to assess reflexivity or to conceptualize the different forms developed among professionals and participants of training programs. This paper presents an analysis of the refle…
Comment évaluer les effets des évaluations d’impact sur la santé
Health impact assessments (HIA) allow the potential impact of non-health-related actions (policy, project, program) on health to be analyzed. For example, municipal projects, for urban renewal or urban planning, have an impact on health drivers relating to the created environment, and thus, on public health. In the province of Quebec, the government and affiliated organizations have to comment on potential impacts; they use HIAs to ensure health …
Public health for a sustainable future
The way in which we have structured our societies has made possible major advances in population health. However, this model, based on intensive exploitation of natural resources, is now the source of the greatest threats to human health. Today's environmental issues call for bringing to public health an ecological approach whose actions address not only population health, but also ecological, social, and economic changes - i.e., an ecosocial app…
Area deprivation and attachment to a general practitioner through centralized waiting lists
Our findings suggest that there are socio-economic inequities in attachment to a GP through centralized waiting lists. Policy makers should take these findings into consideration to adjust centralized waiting list processes to avoid further exacerbation of health inequities
Linking Evaluation and Spending Reviews
The global financial crisis in 2008 was a significant watershed for governments everywhere. Diminished prospects for growth coupled with continuing demands for government interventions and chronic constraints on resources, prompted in part by the widespread adoption of variants of neo-liberalism (constrain resources to limit spending and shrink governments), have created fiscal environments where rationing expenditures among programs and policies…
Regards sur l’expérience de la Commission de révision permanente des programmes au Québec
Cet article s’intéresse aux travaux effectués par la Commission de révision permanente des programmes (CRPP) au Québec. Les auteurs font état de ses réalisations, de ses recommandations et de son influence sur les programmes publics. L’analyse s’appuie sur une revue documentaire (littérature grise, rapports, revue de presse). Les constats qui se dégagent de cette démarche d’analyse soulèvent de nombreuses questions quant à la nature de cet exerci…
Theory-based evaluations
In this article we defend the idea that theory-based evaluations—contribution analysis, logic analysis, and realist evaluation—are complementary components of a new theory in evaluation. We also posit that we are currently observing the emergence of a fifth generation in evaluation: the explanation generation. Theory-based evaluations have featured prominently in the discourse of evaluators since the mid-1980s. They have developed mainly in respo…
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