HEALTH PROGRAM PLANNING Flashcards
the orderly process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are realistic and feasible and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of the proposed programme (WHO)
health planning
purpose of planning
to match limited resources with many problems
to eliminate wasteful expenditures and avoid duplication
to develop the best resource of action to accomplish a defined objective
deficiencies in health that call for preventive, curative, control, and eradication measures
health needs
an important element of planning is setting of the ….
objectives
targets
goals
measures the amount of progress towards goal
objectives
these are achieved by establishing targets
objectives
short-term and measures progress
objectives
objectives are split into discrete activities
targets
ultimate desired state towards which the objectives and resources are directed
goals
these are not constrained by time and resources because they are long-term and they are consumables
goals
long-term outcome
goal
planning cycle
analysis of health situation
establishment of objectives and goals
assessment of resources
fixing priorities
writing up of formulated plan
programming and implementation
evaluation
assessment of resources involves the 3MSKT, namely:
money, manpower, material, skills, knowledge, technique
3 steps of planning
planning
implementation
evaluation
3 activities in planning
assessment of health issues/status
identification of desired state in the future
specification of interventions that are needed to achieve the desired state
2 processes of health program planning
strategize
health program planning
steps in health program planning
preparatory phase
planning
output
preparatory phase of planning involves
- performance review and problems identification for each health program
- analysis of the problems
this involves assessing the accomplishment of each program and determines the percentage accomplishment
performance review and problems identification
a percentage accomplishment of <110% indicates…
over-accomplishment
a percentage accomplishment of >90% indicates…
under-accomplishment
methods of health program analysis
qualitative method
quantitative method