You will choose a target population in your setting and assess the needs, assets, and capacities within the population. Then, you will explain how the needs assessment considers cultural values and practices and discuss how policies can be used to ensure equity in health and favorable environments within the population.

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Identify

• Review the learning resources on “Steps for conducting a needs assessment,” “Culture Matters: using a cultural context of health approach to enhance policy-making” and “Human rights and health.”

• Identify a population and a specific health issue in your setting that you would prefer to cover in this assessment. Remember to consider their cultural values and practices.

Step 2: Assess and Write

Write an 800-1200 words assessment about your target population. Include the following:

• An introduction to the selected population and health issue

• Provide a very brief rationale for the selection of both

• What health determinants of the community are related to your selected health issue? 

• Considering a public health response to your selected health issue, assess:

• What are the community’s healthcare assets?

• What are the community’s healthcare needs?

• What are the community’s healthcare capacities? 

• Explain how cultural values and practices of the population relate to:

• The emergence/prevalence of the health issue

• The design and implementation of policies and programs to address the health issue

• Make sure that your assessment includes both potential challenges and opportunities that stem from your population’s cultural values and practices

• Outline how policies can help to ensure equity and environments favorable to health while keeping in mind cultural values and practices

Step 3: Share

To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. “Post to forum.” Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

You will be given scenarios that display different types of healthcare challenges. You are required to discuss which principles of marketing and strategic planning you think will be best to apply and why. 

Instructions:

Step 1: Review and Research

Review the learning resources on the principles of marketing in public health and on the application of strategic planning and marketing principles in program planning.
Then, choose a topic between Vaccine Deployment and Tobacco Control Legislation. 

• Here are some suggested readings for Vaccine Deployment: 

• Read the section “Deployment” in this Resource and Section 4.3. 

• Read the section “Encouraging the uptake of vaccines” in this Resource.  

• Here are some suggested readings for Tobacco Control Legislation: 

• Read this web article

• Read this journal article.  

Step 2: Discuss

You will now discuss the application of marketing principles and strategic planning to the topic you selected. In your discussion, you should mention: 

• What challenge you choose and why do you think it is significant/relevant to strategic planning and marketing.

• Principles of marketing that best apply to your challenge. Include a justification of how your selected principles would improve program planning to address your selected challenge.

• Principles of strategic planning that best apply to the challenge. Include a justification of how your selected principles would improve program planning to address your selected challenge.

Step 3: Share

To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. “Post to forum.” Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

In this activity, you will discuss which tools, principles, and measures of performance you will most likely use in your setting and which ones you already use.

Step 1: Review and Identify

Review the learning resources on measures of performance for health programs and policy development. Identify which measures are applicable to your setting and which are currently used in your setting.

Step 2: Discuss

In 300-400 words, write a discussion on the measures of performance. In your discussion, you should:

• Briefly describe your setting
• State which measures of performance are best suited for your setting
• State which measures are currently used in your setting and how effective they are
• Identify which other measures are not currently used in your setting and why
• Identify which you think should be employed in your setting and why

To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. “Post to forum.” Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”