This text for graduate students in health administration and related health professions presents major concepts, methods, and issues of evaluating health programs, and explains how to navigate the political terrain so as to work more effectively with decision makers and other groups when developing evaluation questions. Covers methods for selecting among evaluation designs, and discusses the use of answers by decision makers, looking at methods for developing formal dissemination plans, factors that influence whether evaluation findings are used, and major challenges facing the discipline in the next decade. Grembowski teaches in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)