Health Finance and Project Management

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HEALTH FINANCE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Health Finance and Project Management
Problem Statement
Recent studies show that Obesity has become one of the detrimental health issues in
society (Olds at el., 2010). A recent survey carried out in Australia shows that about 63% of
adults are suffering from obesity. Similar survey highlights that 28% of the adults are currently
in the state of being obese. According to the projections, the cases of obesity will be about 70%
by the year 2025 in Australia (Colaguiuri at el., 2010). According to studies, obesity is highly
contributed by genetics and its interplay with the environment. Also, obesity is contributed by
high intake of energy food. Scholars argue that obesity causes various disorders and diseases
such as cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular.
Project Mission Statement
The Mount Pleasant Community Healthcare project plan aims at providing definitions of
the project, project plans, and objectives. Also, the plan aims at introducing health care facilities
to cater to the health of aged people and those with disabilities (Raine at el., 2010). It is evident
that obesity has raised significant concern among the community, which leads to various diseases
such as cancer and diabetes. The new clinic aims at offering services such as screening,
diagnosis, and monitoring of obese people to develop a suitable treatment. This Project plan will
be essential to the community.
Project goals
This plan aims to manage and control the issues of obesity in the community. Also, this
project plan will aim at preventing future projection against obesity within Australia.
Additionally, projects aim at developing a comprehensive framework for controlling and dealing
with the increasing cases of obesity within Australia (Forman at el., 2013).

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Project Objectives
The project plan has the following objectives:
 Establishment of early childhood policies aims at preventing obesity among children
 Establishment of a primary care facility aimed at managing the problem of obesity.
 Adoption of better policies and practices aimed at providing affordable health foods
which can help to curb the chances of obesity in the community
 Ensuring the public has access to both public and private health insurance and other
incentives for preventing obesity. These incentives include; diagnosis, screening, and
treatment.
 Establishment of better training programs to the public to prevent the cases of obesity and
overweight.
 Adoption of school-based programs aimed at preventing chances of obesity among the
children.
 Employment of more health clinical officers aimed at obesity prevention in the
community
 Adoption of-of policies and practices aimed at reducing the consumption of sugary food,
which increases the chances of obesity among the community (Mathews at el., 2010).
Project plan strategies
Food retail: Expanding retails and food services to improve the availability of healthy
food and limit the consumption of unhealthy food.
Regular monitoring: There would be regular monitoring of people’s body weight, food
environments, and evaluations of various programs and policies.

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Governance: Proper governance will enhance access to government information and
assessing health impacts.
Funding and resource provision: There will be funding for research on obesity and
prevention methodologies.
Community support: This will enhance food and nutrition education and establishment of
proper mechanism to support community interventions.
Food restriction: Restriction against the consumption of unhealthy food, that can lead to
obesity.
Deliverables
Deliverable 1: Counselling and Education
It will ensure that the public is educated on healthy food, breastfeeding education, and
lactation counseling. Thus, the approach will control cases of obesity (Sargent, Pilotto &
Baur, 2011).
Deliverable 2: Clinical interventions
 There will be an increase in primary care and other incentives such as screening,
diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity among the community.
 The health center will provide training programs to bring awareness to the community the
cases of obesity and the impacts of obesity that might have on the community.
Deliverable 3: Long-Lasting protective interventions
 Creating a link between health care protection based efforts and community protection
activities.