Healthy Plan-it⢠is a tool for planning and managing public health programs using a data-based decision-making process. The CD-ROM contains a participant's manual, a facilitator's manual, and PowerPoint files with embedded video clips for each of the three modules.
Public health program management includes planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating the use of organizational resources (time, personnel, and money) to prevent or control diseases, disabilities, and premature mortality.
The modules include:
- Module 1: Problems and Priorities provides a way to rate health priorities through the Basic Priority Rating System (BPRS), and a way to determine which priorities make the most sense to address by means of the PEARL assessment system. PEARL is an acronym for propriety, economics, acceptability, resources, and legality.
- Module 2: Finding Solutions teaches the steps involved in problem solving: identifying determinants and contributing factors to the selected health issue, setting objectives, designing an intervention strategy, and developing a work plan based on a work breakdown structure (WBS).
- Module 3: Evaluation and Budget provides tools for monitoring and evaluating progress toward achieving the set objectives, creating budgets, and using the budget as a management tool.
Healthy Plan-it was developed by the Sustainable Management Development Program, Coordinating Office of Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. .
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