New and Old Wars or Health Program Planning and Evaluation

New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era

Author: Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way we understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war—that is to say, war between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violence—is becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized violence which could be described as a mixture of war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights. The actors are both global and local, public and private. The wars are fought for particularistic political goals using tactics of terror and destabilization that are theoretically outlawed by the rules of modern warfare.

Kaldor's analysis offers a basis for a cosmopolitan political response to these wars, in which the monopoly of legitimate organized violence is reconstructed on a transnational basis and international peacekeeping is reconceptualized as cosmopolitan law enforcement.

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Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health

Author: L Michele Issel

This book will help you to systematically develop thoughtfully implement, and rigorously evaluate health programs across a varitey of health disciplines.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Sect. 1	The Context of Health Program Development and Evaluation	1
Ch. 1	Health Program Development and Evaluation	3
Ch. 2	Relevance of Diversity and Disparities to Health Programs	37
Ch. 3	Planning for Health Programs and Services	73
Sect. 2	Developing Health Programs	113
Ch. 4	Community Health Assessment for Program Planning	115
Ch. 5	Program Theory and Interventions Revealed	151
Ch. 6	Program Objectives and Setting Targets	179
Sect. 3	Implementing Health Programs	211
Ch. 7	Logistics of Program Implementation	213
Ch. 8	Process Evaluation: Measuring Inputs and Outputs	237
Sect. 4	Evaluating the Impact and Outcome of Health Programs	277
Ch. 9	Planning the Methods for Evaluating Intervention Effects	279
Ch. 10	Choosing Designs for Impact Evaluation	319
Ch. 11	Analyzing and Interpreting Evaluation Data	357
Ch. 12	Qualitative Methods for Planning and Evaluation	387
Sect. 5	From Data to Decision	411
Ch. 13	Cost Analyses: The Basics	413
Ch. 14	Continuing the Cycle	437
	Index	467