Healthy Plan-it™
Healthy Plan-it™ is...
Healthy Plan-it™ is a tool for planning and managing public health programs using a data-based decision-making process. The entire package consists of a participant's manual, facilitator's manual, and a CD-ROM containing PowerPoint files with embedded video clips for each of the three modules, described below.
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.
Healthy Plan-it™ consists of three modules.
Module 1: Problems and Priorities
Module 1 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
Module 2 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
Module 3 provides tools for monitoring and evaluating progress toward achieving the set objectives, creating budgets, and using the budget as a management tool.