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Health planning and management: planning cycle, SMART objectives, National Health Policy 2017, priority setting and management functions for NEET-PG revision.
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Plans Work When Feedback Changes Action
Health planning and management: planning cycle, SMART objectives, National Health Policy 2017, priority setting and management functions for NEET-PG revision.
Health planning and management is a systematic process of assessing needs, setting priorities, choosing strategies, allocating resources and evaluating results, framed by India's national health policies and the management cycle.
High-yield lines
- Health planning is a systematic process of assessing needs, setting priorities, choosing strategies, allocating resources and evaluating results.
- WHO defines health planning as a rational process for defining goals and objectives of health-care systems and determining the means to achieve them.
- A complete health plan includes objectives, policies, programmes, schedules, procedures and a budget.
- SMART objectives are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound.
- The planning cycle runs through situation analysis, priority setting, objective formulation, strategy selection, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
- Monitoring checks whether activities are done as planned while evaluation judges whether objectives and outcomes were achieved.
- India's first National Health Policy was adopted in 1983 and revised in 2002.
- The National Health Policy 2017 set a target of raising public health expenditure to 2.5 percent of GDP.
- Types of planning by direction include top-down, bottom-up and interactive approaches.
- Park lists good-plan characteristics including being needs-based, feasible, acceptable, equitable, measurable and flexible.
- Priority setting ranks problems by magnitude, severity, preventability, feasibility, cost and community concern.
- The Health Management Information System supports monitoring and accountability at facility and block level.
- Management functions include planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating and controlling.
- Equity in planning requires naming the underserved group and stating how it will be reached.
Mapped competency codes
- CM16.1
- CM16.2
- CM16.3
- CM16.4
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This summary maps to CM16-health-planning-and-management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does SMART stand for in objective setting?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound, which turns an intention into a reviewable objective.
What target did the National Health Policy 2017 set for health spending?
It aimed to raise public health expenditure to 2.5 percent of GDP.
How does monitoring differ from evaluation?
Monitoring checks that activities are being carried out as planned, while evaluation judges whether the objectives and health outcomes were actually achieved.
What elements make up a complete health plan?
Objectives, policies, programmes, schedules, procedures and a budget that links each activity to money, staff, supplies and infrastructure.
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