Background:

the evaluation is one of the most used terms in public health; it is a systematic and objective appreciation of a project, a program in course or finished, of its design, its implementation and its results. It is an essential tool in the development of health policies.

Objective:

to facilitate a tool for the evaluation of the community participation component in the National Prevention and Control Program of Human Leptospirosis at the level of Primary Health Assistance.

Methods:

a development research was done and it permitted the creation of a guide to formulate value judgments from the comparison of the results according to the established standards. For obtaining the information, it was reviewed program, for the selection normative criteria. A nominal group of managers of Hermanos Cruz University Polyclinic was carried out to know the problems that affected the process of promotion and prevention counting on community participation, related to leptospirosis.A survey, and interviews were made in order to know: criteria satisfaction degree, indicators, standards of structure, process and results to evaluate the component of community participation. A workshop and group discussions were made to make a consensus based of the expert criteria, for the making of the criteria, indicators and standards of the different dimensions.

Results:

the guide proposed had 34 criteria, indicators and standards to evaluate the different dimensions, in structure facilities with available doctors and nurses to execute the program were taken into account, in the process it was proponed the integration level of the institutions and organisms, as well as the upgrading activities for the health teams, community and organisms. For the result, satisfaction of internal and external users, as well as the decrease of morbidity and mortality indicators by leptospirosis was also valuated.

Conclusions:

the guide offered permits the evaluation of the community participation component in the national prevention and control program of human leptospirosis at the level of primary health.

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