title: The case for spatial analysis in evaluation to reduce health inequities.
abstract: The article begins by giving an overview of spatial thinking concepts that are relevant to evaluation. The article relates the spatial perspective to both a realist evaluation and a randomized control trial perspective in evaluation to demonstrate the benefits of a spatialized program and evaluation perspective. The article mainly suggests that the adoption of a spatial perspective can add new insights to the theory and practice of evaluation in ways that helps evaluation move closer to reducing health inequities.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, United States. julia.koschinsky@asu.edu
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koschinsky
mesh_terms: D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011340:Problem Solving; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D062206:Spatial Analysis