Overall Program Assessment - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 35

BOX 3-2
Logic Model Terms and Examples
Planning Inputs: Stakeholder input, surveillance, and intervention data, and risk assess-
ments (e.g., input from Federal Advisory Committee Act panels or the National Occupational
Research Agenda research partners, intramural surveillance information, Health Hazard
Evaluations [HHEs]).
Production Inputs: Intramural and extramural funding, staffing, management structure,
and physical facilities.
Activities: Efforts and work of the program, staff, grantees, and contractors (e.g., surveil-
lance, health effects research, intervention research, health services research, information
dissemination, training, and technical assistance).
Outputs: A direct product of a NIOSH research program that is logically related to the
achievement of desirable and intended outcomes (e.g., publications in peer-reviewed jour-
nals, recommendations, reports, website content, workshops and presentations, data-
bases, educational materials, scales and methods, new technologies, patents, and technical
assistance).
Intermediate Outcomes: Related to the program's association with behaviors and changes
at individual, group, and organizational levels in the workplace. An assessment of the worth
of NIOSH research and its products by outside stakeholders (e.g., production of standards
or regulations based in whole or in part on NIOSH research; attendance in training and
education programs sponsored by other organizations; use of publications, technologies,
methods, or recommendations by workers, industry, and occupational safety and health
professionals in the field; and citations of NIOSH research by industry and academic
scientists).
End Outcomes: Improvements in safety and health in the workplace. Defined by measures
of health and safety and of impact on processes and programs (e.g., changes related to
health, including decreases in injuries, illnesses, or deaths and decreases in exposures due
to research in a specific program or subprogram).
External Factors: Actions or forces beyond NIOSH's control (e.g., by industry, labor, regu-
lators, and other entities) with important bearing on the incorporation in the workplace of
NIOSH's outputs to enhance safety and health.
SOURCE: Framework Document (see Appendix A).