title: Using tracers to link health services to training through evaluation.
abstract: The tracer concept was applied to evaluate the delivery of family health care and the training of family health workers. A retrospective evaluation permitted linking the products of care to process, input and context, by isolating and analysing potential factors contributing to a limited number of representative concerns. Contributory learning deficiencies identified in health workers, one input to health care as well as a product of training, enabled the evaluation of training programmes to be focused on related segments of the courses. The latter were evaluated through a pathway analysis which followed the same deficiency model as the evaluation of health care. Links were thus established between the traditionally compartmentalized training and service sectors in health.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Institute, Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bandaranayake
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005192:Family Health; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D007318:Inservice Training; D012189:Retrospective Studies