USING TRACERS TO LINK HEALTH-SERVICES TO TRAINING THROUGH EVALUATION

The tracer concept was applied to evaluate the delivery of family heal th care and the training of family health workers. A retrospective eva luation permitted linking the products of care to process, input and c ontext, by isolating and analysing potential factors contributing to a limited number of representative concerns. Contributory learning defi ciencies identified in health workers, one input to health care as wel l as a product of training, enabled the evaluation of training program mes to be focused on related segments of the courses. The latter were evaluated through a pathway analysis which followed the same deficienc y model as the evaluation of health care. Links were thus established between the traditionally compartmentalized training and service secto rs in health.