Evaluating CDC's Mission, Vision, and Resources for Healthcare Goals

This report provides an analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a healthcare organization, focusing on its mission and vision statements. It assesses the effectiveness of these statements and examines the organizational resources used to achieve the CDC's goals. The report highlights the CDC's role in protecting public health and fostering safety through disease control and prevention strategies. It also discusses the CDC's global strategy for improving health systems and the importance of strategic planning in organizational decision-making. The analysis concludes that the CDC's mission and vision are effective in promoting the health and well-being of individuals in the United States.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).......................................................................2
Mission Statement.............................................................................................................................2
Vision of CDC...................................................................................................................................2
Organisational resources to attain mission and vision.......................................................................3
Strategy to achieve the mission of CDC............................................................................................3
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................3
References.............................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
The assignment brings about the discussion on the assessment of a healthcare
organisation, and their mission and vision statements. CDC (Centre for Disease Control and
Prevention) has been taken as the healthcare organisation for the analysis. In addition, there
will be a discussion of critique of the mission and the major resources of the organisation
leading to attainment of goals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been
a leader in the national public health institutes within the country serving individuals. The
organisation operates with an objective to protect health and foster the aspect of safety of
individuals implementing the measures of control and prevention of disease (Mast et al.,
2017).
Mission Statement
CDC has been operating 24/7 with the aim to promote and secure America from the
respective issues or threats of health, safety, and security in both U.S. and other foreign
countries. CDC aims to fight with every kind of diseases, and with different circumstances
such as chronic, curable or preventable, or due to human error, or a deliberate attack. To
accomplish mission, the organisation provides healthcare information and services which
protects the nation from dangerous health threats.
Vision of CDC
The vision statement deals with the long-term perspective of ensuring growth,
success, and attainment of the organisational goals and objectives in the future years. Thus,
CDC has the vision to create a healthy workplace or work environment which ensures that
employees working in CDC are valued, respected, and supported in their efforts to
accomplish the public health mission.
To discuss about the effectiveness of mission and vision statements, it has been
analysed that CDC fosters the individual’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life of the

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individuals which states about positive mission, vision or values of CDC (Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 2018).
Organisational resources to attain mission and vision
CDC ensures the accomplishment of the mission, vision, and values through some of their
strengths or the resources used for strategic planning.
 The use of prevention strategies by CDC using sound and scientific knowledge.
 Leadership and technological capabilities.
 Trained public health workers (Boyd, Clark and Kent, 2017).
Strategy to achieve the mission of CDC
To state about the attainment of health, and quality life to the public health or their
consumers, CDC has implemented The Global strategy for the future years. The strategy has
broadly, and has worked to attain high efficiency in the health systems, as disease
surveillance, and the health information systems within hospitals.
Strategic planning or tool in context to healthcare organisations plays a vital role in
organisational decision-making and for the purpose of evaluating progress and change within
the organisation. Thus, the substance or the strengths of CDC are the substances which lead
to efficient strategic planning process within system (CDC.gov, 2018).
Conclusion
To conclude the above discussion it has been analysed that CDC (Centred for disease
control and prevention) has been a leader in delivering effective health and safety of the
individuals. Disease control and prevention has been a major factor or aim of the healthcare
organisation in the United States. Hence, the assignment has discussed well which indicates
that the characteristics of mission and vision statement are effective to high quality life of
people within country.

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References
Boyd, A.M., Clark, J.S. & Kent, S.S. (2017). Strategic thinking in pharmacy. American
Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 74(14), 1103-1108.
CDC.gov (2018). CDC Global Health Strategy. Retrieved from:
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/strategy/pdf/cgh_strategy_overview.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Mission, Vision, and Goals. Retrieved
from: https://www.cdc.gov/eeo/aboutus/mission.htm
Mast, E.E., Cochi, S.L., Kew, O.M., Cairns, K.L., Bloland, P.B. & Martin, R. (2017) Fifty
Years of Global Immunization at CDC, 1966-2015. Public Health Reports, 132(1),
18-26.