ABSTRACT Ecological approaches to health promotion have been increasingly adopted to address the complexities of increasing population level physical activity. These approaches understand individual behaviour in terms of the outcome of interactions between multiple biological, psycho-sociological and environmental factors which require complex and multilevel interventions. However, the health promotion field has been hampered by a lack of evaluation frameworks that provide sufficient flexibility to accommodate the complexity of ‘real world’ settings which lie at the heart of ecological approaches. In order to evaluate a small grants community health promotion programme this study deployed a social-ecological evaluation framework operationalised through a Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology. This sought to understand and assess the broader social outcomes relating to the implementation of range of local physical activity and sport projects, and to maintain stakeholder engagement throughout. The formative and summative components of the evaluation are described before results are presented, which include qualitative findings and outcome indicator values. Findings highlight a diverse range of societal outcomes at the individual level for example, improved physical and mental health, and community level for example, community connectedness, which reflect a range of social, personal and interpersonal, and economic benefits. The SROI methodology not only provides social enterprises with a framework for measuring performance and impact, but is also shown to be a valuable management and stakeholder engagement tool for those commissioning local physical activity and sport programmes of this type.

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通过社会生态框架评估社区健康计划的更广泛的社会成果

摘要 越来越多地采用生态健康促进方法来解决日益增加的人口水平身体活动的复杂性。这些方法根据需要复杂和多层次干预的多种生物学、心理社会学和环境因素之间相互作用的结果来理解个体行为。然而，健康促进领域由于缺乏提供足够灵活性以适应处于生态方法核心的“现实世界”环境的复杂性的评估框架而受到阻碍。为了评估小额赠款社区健康促进计划，本研究部署了通过社会投资回报 (SROI) 方法实施的社会生态评估框架。这旨在了解和评估与实施一系列当地体育活动和体育项目相关的更广泛的社会成果，并始终保持利益相关者的参与。在呈现结果之前描述评估的形成性和总结性组成部分，其中包括定性发现和结果指标值。调查结果突出了个人层面的各种社会成果，例如改善身心健康，以及社区层面，例如社区联系，这反映了一系列社会、个人和人际关系以及经济利益。SROI 方法不仅为社会企业提供了衡量绩效和影响的框架，