DOI: 10.17151/hpsal.2019.24.1.11
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Valencia González AM, Hincapié Zapata ME, Gómez Builes GM, Molano Buile PE. Evaluation trends in health promotion. Update of the debate in the decade 2005-2015. Hacia Promoc. Salud [Internet]. 2018 Nov. 13 [cited 2025 Jun. 5];24(1):123-37. Available from: https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/hacialapromociondelasalud/article/view/3595

Authors

Alejandra Milena Valencia González
Universidad de Antioquia
alejandra.valencia@udea.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-2177
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María Eugenia Hincapié Zapata
Universidad de Antioquia
meugenia.hincapie@udea.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7617-8898
Gloria Marcela Gómez Builes
Universidad de Antioquia
gloria.gomez@udea.edu.co
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-753X
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Patricia Eugenia Molano Buile
Universidad de Antioquia
patricia.molano@udea.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4027-5335
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Abstract

Health promotion (HP) is a pillar of public health for the improvement of living and health conditions. However, the health promotion evaluation is a theoretical-practical field with incipient developments in permanent construction. Objective: The objective of this study was to provide elements to update the health promotion evaluation debate between the years 2005 and 2015. Methods: A state-of-the-art documentary research was conducted -from a thematic review of 23 databases- after defining the conceptual and comprehensive descriptors related to health promotion, health promotion evaluation and positive indicators in health promotion. A total of 49 publications with emphasis on the evaluation of health promotion were selected for analysis. Results: three health promotion evaluation trends were configured: realistic evaluation aimed at assessing the contexts and theories that underlie the action; participatory evaluation that highlights the participation of all the actors involved in the interventions; and impact evaluation aimed at identifying processes and results tending to health promotion effectiveness and overcoming health inequities. Conclusions: Despite the progress, there are challenges to the health promotion evaluation such as the approach from a complex perspective of both, interventions and evaluation; the development of evaluation models that allow the effective empowerment and intersectoriality; and the problematization of evidence as the guiding axis of effectiveness in health promotion.

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