Feasibility Study: Effectiveness of Public Health System (Programmes/Policies)in Combating Severe Population Health crisis in Ukraine. (360G-Wellcome-110320_Z_15_Z)

This study is intended to accumulate knowledge to design properly the future full-scale project "Study on the Role of Public Health Programmes/Policies in Combatting Severe Population Health Crisis in Ukraine". Full-scale research project will analyse the relative effectiveness of public health measures in Ukraine over the period from 1990 to 2014, to form the evidence base for the development of an integrated public health system and its successful implementation. The development study is needed due to the scarcity of relevant knowledge on public health in Ukraine and lack of easy access to the necessary data, and thus knowledge on whether the data is suitable for such evaluation. The main objective of the development study is to assess the past programmes/policies in as to their evaluability based on their history, design, context, and implementation and the availability and quality of the data. The research will involve four Work Packages - scoping the data sources, in-depth interviews with key stakeholders and informants, preparation of data and analysing its quality, conducting an iterative research process based upon the Evaluability Assessment approach. It will take place in Canterbury and Kyiv from May 2015 till April 2016 performed by multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research team led by Stephen Peckham which includes senior researchers with experience in conducting large surveys, qualitative studies, statistical and economic analysis and health systems and health policy research.