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To help measure the success of the health fair, you can provide evaluation forms to both participants and providers. The evaluations will assist you in identifying the fair's strengths and weaknesses and whether the goals were achieved. Evaluations will also help determine which health topics are of most interest to participants and what they would like to see at future health fairs.

Go back to the goals and objectives when writing the evaluation forms. Make sure that you include questions that will measure those objectives. Samples of evaluation forms are included in the box to the left..

The participant evaluations will give you information about how the participants heard about the fair, what motivated them to attend, why they did not participate in certain booths at the fair, which topics were most interesting, the set up and organization of the health fair, what else they would like to see, and the professionalism of the providers and staff.

After going through the health fair, each participant should be asked to fill out an evaluation form. Designate a location to drop off the forms after they are completed. To increase the response rate for the evaluations, consider giving an incentive to all those who turn them in.

In the last half hour of the health fair, ask each provider to complete an evaluation form. This feedback will be valuable to assess the organization and implementation of the fair from the providers' perspective. If the providers are donating their services or products, you might also ask them to estimate the value of the product, service, or giveaways. This information can help you estimate the total value of the health fair. If you have little or no budget, you will be amazed at the true value of a comprehensive health fair.