Program Design Plan and Evaluation

PROGRAM DESIGN PLAN
AND EVALUATION

INTRODUCTION
 Community health focuses on the protection, maintenance,
and enhancement of health status of a population communities
and group.
 Kentucky Department of Public Health is responsible for
introducing and operating different health study programs for
the residents of Kentucky.
 It has different programs initiated for diabetes, tuberculosis,
heart disease, cancer, oral health complication Along with
smoking and drinking (Ky.gov, 2019).

POTENTIAL PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT
 According to CDC (2019), chronic disease is the condition that
will last up to 1 year or more than that.
 Based on the treatment or attention provided.
 Chronic disease can be only prevented by the self-
management of the disease. Around 6 out of 10 Americans are
suffering from chronic illness (CDC, 2019).
 A self-management program will be developed among the
Kentucky community for the chronic illness management.

DISPARITIES
 There are people who are residing in the rural areas or
belongs to low economic class; poverty rate of USA is 12.3 %.
 such populations, does not access to the health care and also
cannot afford the expensive treatment used for chronic illness
(Douthit et al., 2015).
 The organization has developed such programs to ensure that
the mortality rate among the people under the poverty rate
should reduce.