Principles of Health Planning and Evaluation

Critically Review :

Critically Review : Principles of Health Planning and Evaluation – Nursing Assignment

As an international consultant in Health Planning, you have been an assignment by the Government of Australia to review the Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP) of Muteu Country for the year 2011-2016. Muteu is a developing country and heavily depends external funding for health financing. The Government of Australia has agreed to provide technical and financial support for developing a new Health Sector Plan for the country of Muteu. Before the Ministry of Health in Muteu can develop the new strategic plan, The Australian Government in collaboration with Government of Muteu would like the current HSSP to be reviewed and evaluated as a basis for the next HSSP.

identify areas that need to be improved in the next planning process. You are asked to write a report of this plan review which should respond to the tasks as outlined in your Terms Of Conditions for your contract as an external consultant with the Australian Government.  Below is a suggestion of key areas and questions that need to be addressed in your report;

1. Using a SWOT analysis tool, analyse the Muteu planning context and identify three major health system capacity concerns for developing and implementing the next HSSP. Discuss their potential implication on the next HSSP and provide suggestions of how these might be addressed. Use a SWOT analysis matrix to summarize the factors that define the Muteu’s health planning context. Discuss your SWOT analysis emphasizing the potential implications of the three main contextual factors.

2. Looking at the disease burden and statistics for health conditions for Muteu, what should be the three-key priority population health issues or needs to be addressed in the next plan? Provide evidence and rationale for your recommendations in this regard.

3. Using a tree analysis or problem analysis tool or decision analysis, or mind mapping, identify the underlying causes of the three main population health issues which you have identified as priorities for next Muteu’s health plan.

4. Based on your problem analysis, what should be the overall goal for the next Muteu’s Health plan? The overall goal should follow the SMART principles in developing goals and objectives.

– Nursing Assignment

As an international consultant in Health Planning, you have been an assignment by the Government of Australia to review the Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP) of Muteu Country for the year 2011-2016. Muteu is a developing country and heavily depends external funding for health financing. The Government of Australia has agreed to provide technical and financial support for developing a new Health Sector Plan for the country of Muteu. Before the Ministry of Health in Muteu can develop the new strategic plan, The Australian Government in collaboration with Government of Muteu would like the current HSSP to be reviewed and evaluated as a basis for the next HSSP.

identify areas that need to be improved in the next planning process. You are asked to write a report of this plan review which should respond to the tasks as outlined in your Terms Of Conditions for your contract as an external consultant with the Australian Government.  Below is a suggestion of key areas and questions that need to be addressed in your report;

1. Using a SWOT analysis tool, analyse the Muteu planning context and identify three major health system capacity concerns for developing and implementing the next HSSP. Discuss their potential implication on the next HSSP and provide suggestions of how these might be addressed. Use a SWOT analysis matrix to summarize the factors that define the Muteu’s health planning context. Discuss your SWOT analysis emphasizing the potential implications of the three main contextual factors.

2. Looking at the disease burden and statistics for health conditions for Muteu, what should be the three-key priority population health issues or needs to be addressed in the next plan? Provide evidence and rationale for your recommendations in this regard.

3. Using a tree analysis or problem analysis tool or decision analysis, or mind mapping, identify the underlying causes of the three main population health issues which you have identified as priorities for next Muteu’s health plan.

4. Based on your problem analysis, what should be the overall goal for the next Muteu’s Health plan? The overall goal should follow the SMART principles in developing goals and objectives.