Evaluatie van de Volksgezondheid Toekomst Verkenning 2002

In November 2002 the RIVM published the third Public Health Status and Forecasts (PHSF) summary report called, 'Health on Course?' This report concluded the third PHSF cycle, in which not only 'Health on Course?' appeared but also a number of PHSF thematic reports and two websites: the National Public Health Compass and the National Atlas for Health and Health Care. Just as for the PHSF 1993 and 1997 cycles, an evaluation was carried out on PHSF 2002 by the Centre for Public Health Forecasting in close collaboration with the Directorate General for 'Prevention and Public Health' of the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport. Besides the summary report 'Health on Course', the evaluation also covered the thematic reports and the two websites, along with the underlying process and products.The evaluation was aimed in the first place at gaining more insight into the value of the different products for various interested parties. The second aim was to identify potential areas of improvement. Several recommendations and points of special interest for the design of the following PHSF in 2006 have been formulated on the basis of the evaluation outcomes