Drive Outcomes with a Best Practice Approach to Strategy, Culture, and Program Evaluation

Evidence shows that the most effective health promotion initiatives employ the use of strategic planning, a supportive organization, and ongoing program evaluation, yet many organizations focus more on programs and tactics than these stalwart tenets for success. Numerous ongoing analyses of HERO Scorecard data identify specific practices that are associated with outcomes, and a new study compared organizations implementing specific practices on the HERO Scorecard against organizations that do not implement them to assess differences in self-reported outcomes. Practitioners can use free tools like the HERO Scorecard to identify specific practices linked to better outcomes.