Using logic models in a community-based agricultural injury prevention project.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has long promoted the logic model as a useful tool in an evaluator's portfolio. Because a logic model supports a systematic approach to designing interventions, it is equally useful for program planners. Undertaken with community stakeholders, a logic model process articulates the underlying foundations of a particular programmatic effort and enhances program design and evaluation. Most often presented as sequenced diagrams or flow charts, logic models demonstrate relationships among the following components: statement of a problem, various causal and mitigating factors related to that problem, available resources to address the problem, theoretical foundations of the selected intervention, intervention goals and planned activities, and anticipated short- and long-term outcomes. This article describes a case example of how a logic model process was used to help community stakeholders on the Navajo Nation conceive, design, implement, and evaluate agricultural injury prevention projects.
Helitzer
Deborah
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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. Helitzer@salud.unm.edu
Willging
Cathleen
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Hathorn
Gary
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Benally
Jeannie
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D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000383:Agriculture; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D016015:Logistic Models; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods