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Effective Community Health Planning Guide

Planning is a process that involves determining steps to achieve desired goals in the future. It involves sourcing and allocating resources. There are three main approaches to community health planning: community-based, integrated, and comprehensive. The PRECEDE-PROCEED model provides a structure for assessing health needs, designing, implementing, and evaluating public health programs. The planning cycle involves situational analysis, setting goals and objectives, determining strategies and activities, and developing an evaluation plan to measure the program's effectiveness.

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Effective Community Health Planning Guide

Planning is a process that involves determining steps to achieve desired goals in the future. It involves sourcing and allocating resources. There are three main approaches to community health planning: community-based, integrated, and comprehensive. The PRECEDE-PROCEED model provides a structure for assessing health needs, designing, implementing, and evaluating public health programs. The planning cycle involves situational analysis, setting goals and objectives, determining strategies and activities, and developing an evaluation plan to measure the program's effectiveness.

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Planning?

Planning is a process which involves steps that would be taken in the future to attain desired end.
It is performed to source out and allocate resources. The concept of planning are as follows:

futuristic
change-oriented
continuous
dynamic process
flexible
systemic process

Approaches to Planning Health


Participatory Planning for Community Health
Primary Health Care Approach. Emphasizes the need to “work with people” as equal partners
towards the goals of increased individual & community control, political efficacy, improved quality of
community life & social justice.

Three Important approaches:


Community - Integrated Comprehensi
Based Approach ve approach
Approach considers strikes at the
other root of the
empowers dimension of problem
people health such as
lifestyle,
environment,
health care
system
Procede – Proceed Model in Community Health Planning (Green and Kreuter, 1999). The
nurse clarifies the roles of stakeholders as well as strategies / approaches in addressing health
problems.
The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a comprehensive structure for assessing health needs for
designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs to
meet those needs.
provides the structure for
PRECEDE planning a targeted and
focused public health program.

provides the structure


for implementing and PROCEED
evaluating the public
health program

PRECEDE stands for Predisposing, Reinforcing, Enabling, Constructs in Educational / ecological


Diagnosis and Evaluation.
PROCEED consists of Policy, Regulatory and Organizational Constructs in Educational and
Environmental Diagnosis

THE PLANNING CYCLE


!. Situational Analysis
Answers the question , “where are we now?”
Involves the process of collection, synthesizing, analyzing and interpreting information in a manner
that provides a clear picture of the health status of the community. Stages in Conducting
Situational Analysis are:

Behavioral And Administrative


Environmental And Policy
Social Diagnosis Diagnosis Diagnosis

Epidemiological Educational And


Diagnosis Organizational
Diagnosis

2. Goal and Objective – Setting


This answers “where do we want to go?”
This a process that formulates the goal and objectives of the health program and nursing
strategies. Goal is the desired end Objective are more precise.

3. Strategy and Activity Setting


This answers “How do we get there?”
This defines the strategies and the activities that the nurse and community set to achieve in
order to realize the goals and objectives. It implies the identification of resources. In here, the
nurse facilitates the definite strategy or approach in health program. Resources, constraints of
the program are estimated.

4. Developing an Evaluation Plan


This answers the question, “How do we know we are there?”
This determine if the program is relevant, effective, efficient and adequate. It involves two
process, observation and measurement. Two approaches in evaluating program are qualitative
method and quantitative method. Three aspects of a program are process, impact and
outcome. The nurse use an indicator to measure program. These indicators are as follow:

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