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Using tracers to link health services to training through evaluation
Author(s) -
BANDARANAYAKE R. C.,
SINGH P. J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1993.tb00312.x
Subject(s) - health care , training (meteorology) , context (archaeology) , health services , process (computing) , product (mathematics) , nursing , family health , medical education , service (business) , medicine , psychology , environmental health , business , computer science , marketing , political science , population , mathematics , meteorology , law , operating system , paleontology , physics , biology , geometry
Summary. 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.