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Health Planning + Management Flashcards

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must be suited to its current situation and the needs to be serviced

health services should be designed so as to meet the health needs and demands of the people

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Organizational design

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Skillful use of human resources

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Personnel management – ergonomics

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Proper methods of selection, training and motivation; division of responsibility; distribution of roles; incentive for better work; opportunities for promotion and professional advancement

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Personnel management – ergonomics

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functions of an information system consist of collection, classification, transmission, storage, retrieval, transformation and display of information. It provides data for monitoring and evaluation of health programmes and gives the requisite feedback to health administrators and planners at all levels

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Information systems

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Objectives are set forth for different units and subunits, each of which prepares its own plan of action

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Management by objectives – splitting work

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formal discipline used to weigh the total expected costs against the total expected benefits of one or more actions in order to choose the best or most profitable option

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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There must be a common unit of measurement

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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analysis of the project should involve ‘with action versus without action’ comparison

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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9
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Double counting of benefits or costs must be avoided

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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Long term benefits should be considered

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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11
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Helps in budgeting in health system

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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12
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Helps in long term investment planning

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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difficult to express all the benefits in terms of monetary units, decision maker’s bias can happen

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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Decision maker may miss the indirect benefits/costs

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Cost Benefit Analysis

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Cost of program is compared with the outcome in terms of reduction of morbidity and mortality

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Cost effective analysis

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16
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Helps in evaluating the activities of the health program

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Cost effective analysis

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17
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Helps in identifying weak points in implementing the program

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Cost effective analysis

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18
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difficult to measure all benefits in terms of effectiveness

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Cost effective analysis

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19
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identification of benefits may be subjective

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Cost effective analysis

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20
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certain specific techniques which can be used for the planning, management and control of projects

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Network analysis

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21
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utilize the resources optimally

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Network analysis

22
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minimize the total project time

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Network analysis

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minimize the total cost of the project

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Network analysis

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minimize the conflicts, delays and interruption

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Network analysis

25
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longest sequence of activities that must be finished on time in order for the entire project to be complete

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CPM - Critical Path Method

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revolves around discovering the most important tasks in the project timeline, identifying task dependencies, and calculating task durations

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CPM - Critical Path Method

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Used in Production management - for the jobs of repetitive in nature where the activity time estimates, can be predicted with considerable certainty due to the existence of past experience

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CPM - Critical Path Method

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activities are shown as a network of precedence relationships using activity-on-arrow network construction
-Multiple time estimates
-Probabilistic activity times

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PERT - Project Evaluation & Review Techniques

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Used in Project management - for non-repetitive jobs where the time and cost estimates tend to be quite uncertain. This technique uses probabilistic time estimates

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PERT - Project Evaluation & Review Techniques

30
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minimum amount of time needed to accomplish a task

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Optimistic time

31
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maximum amount of time needed to accomplish a task

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Pessimistic time

32
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best estimate of how long it will likely take to accomplish a task

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Most likely time

33
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Design is based on event

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PERT

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Time requirement is estimated

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PERT

35
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Main objective is to take shortest time

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PERT

36
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Activity time is not subjective

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PERT

37
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Slack time can not be identified

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PERT

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Design is based on activity

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CPM

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Time requirement is taken from previous experience

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CPM

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There is mixture of time and cost

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CPM

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Activity time is subjective

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CPM

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Slack time can be identified

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CPM

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system to help decision makers to allocate resources so that the available resources of an organization are used in the most effective way in achieving its objectives

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Planning programming budgeting system

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Calls for grouping of activities into programmes related to each objectives

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Planning programming budgeting system

45
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Budget are built around what is needed for the upcoming period, regardless of whether the budget is higher or lower than the previous one

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Zero budget approach

46
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systematic observation and recording of activities of one or more individuals, carried out at predetermined or random intervals

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Work sampling

47
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provides quantitative measurement of the various activities. The major parameters that are analyzed are the type of activities performed and the time needed to do specified jobs

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Work sampling

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studies are useful for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratory technicians

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Work sampling

49
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permits judgments to the appropriateness of current staff, job description and training

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Work sampling

50
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helps in standardizing the methods of performing jobs and determining the manpower needs in any organization

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Work sampling

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