Evaluations

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (HPCDP) Evaluations

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (HPCDP) has a robust, coordinated evaluation approach that addresses elements of comprehensive prevention programs. This webpage details the coordinated evaluation effort for Oregon's Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention work. Additionally, these reports generate information that can be used to improve the quality of work and demonstrate accountability, transparency, and effectiveness.

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Program Evaluations

Tobacco Retail License Program Evaluation 2024 – With the passage of Senate Bill 587, the Legislative Assembly included a mandate for the program to be evaluated on an ongoing basis. This interim evaluation report addresses evaluation progress for the first two years of program administration covering the implementation of the Tobacco Retail License program (July of 2021 to December 2023). This evaluation focuses on three components:

Required activities carried out to enforce the laws during that last two years;
Strategies used for enforcing Oregon tobacco retail laws;
and Measuring progress achieved in reducing the availability of tobacco products and vaping products to people under 21 years of age.

Tobacco Prevention and Education Program 2023 Evaluation Report – This evaluation examined the effectiveness of Oregon Tobacco Prevention Education Program and its activities in the 2021-2023 biennium. It focused on three components. 1.) Measuring progress in changing local tobacco prevention policies and strategies (statewide) to reduce the availability of tobacco products, reduce exposure to secondhand smoke/vapor, and improve health systems capacity to diagnose and treat nicotine addiction; 2.) Understanding and improving Local Public Health Authority (LPHA) approaches to working with health systems to address the tobacco use disparities among people with substance use disorders and mental health conditions; and 3.) Understanding community conditions that may contribute to commercial tobacco/nicotine use in Oregon's rural populations.
Tiered Funding Model Evaluation – Focused on results of changes made to the TPEP local health department funding model in 2019, including: the impact of the tiered funding model on local policy and health systems change; the effect of state-to-local technical assistance; and local TPEP programs progress in developing partnerships outside of their local health department.
Tobacco and Alcohol Retail Assessment (TARA) Evaluation – The purpose of this project was to evaluate the planning and implementation of the 2018 TARA and make recommendations for improving tobacco and alcohol retail assessments.
Cross Agency Health Improvement Plan (CAHIP) – Evaluation of the CAHIP and cross-agency efforts to encourage worksite wellness, tobacco-free living and improved nutrition and physical activity for clients, consumers and employees.
Tobacco Burden Evaluation Report: Evaluation to assess the economic burden of tobacco on morbidity and mortality in Oregon.

Potential Effects of a Ban on the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products: 2023 Data Brief

Campaign Evaluations

Prevention Campaign Evaluation – Evaluation of the SmokeFree Oregon Campaign on population awareness and support for tobacco prevention messages and related policies that will reduce youth tobacco use initiation and support tobacco use cessation.
Oregon Tobacco QuitLine American Indian Commercial Tobacco Cessation Program Evaluation – Evaluation to better understand experience with the Oregon Tobacco Quit Line Program and identify opportunities to improve support for American Indian and Alaska Native populations in quitting commercial tobacco.
Youth Marijuana Prevention Pilot Campaign Evaluation – Evaluation to determine the campaign's effects on perceptions of health risks, awareness of potential negative consequences of marijuana use, and youth and young adult intent to initiate or delay use.

Policy Evaluations

Tobacco 21 Evaluation – The Tobacco 21 evaluation describes the short-term and intermediate-term outcomes of implementation of Tobacco 21 with data from youth and youth adults in all counties in Oregon.

Tobacco 21 Social Media Survey Summary: This report details the use of social media (Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok) to recruit for Phase 2 of a new Tobacco 21 survey.

Tobacco Retail Evaluation (TRE) – Local TPEP program progress in passing tobacco retail policies.
Indoor Clean Air Act Expansion Evaluation (ICAAE) – Evaluation intended to improve understanding of success adopting, implementing and sustaining expansion of the ICAA.
Including Electronic Cigarettes in Oregon's Tobacco Laws Evaluation – The evaluation characterizes the House Bill 2546 policy process and harvest lessons learned for future policy processes in Oregon, as well as offer a case study for other jurisdictions in the U.S.A.