Abstract
Public policy (including health promotion policy) evaluation and monitoring is considered, especially in the discourse on the ground of public policy as an academic discipline, to be an integral part of public policy creation and implementation, which should contribute to promotion of democratic principles in public administration. The particular evaluation practice and hence the very meaning of evaluation, may differ greatly from academic methodological recommendations and declarations included in strategic public policy documents.
The aim of the article is to create a theoretical framework which can be used for exploration and understanding of evaluation practice in the health promotion policy at the national level (including various conditions which can influence the evaluation practice) and introduce some of the findings of authors dealing with particular cases of evaluation practice.