University Health Organization Assignment: Analysis and Strategies

This assignment focuses on health organization strategies, policy development, and program evaluation. The student identifies strategies for community health programs, addresses potential barriers, and outlines key priorities for health departments. The assignment analyzes a specific health issue, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), in South Carolina, detailing a policy cycle that includes agenda setting, policy formation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. It also includes program strategy matrices, rationale, and a budget summary. The student emphasizes the importance of environmental analysis in understanding health issues and suggests topics for future course continuation. References are provided to support the analysis.

Running head: HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Health Organization
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Question 1
The strategies that will be employed in a community before starting the health program in
a community:
 Identification of the societal issues (access to the quality healthcare) that
potentially contribute to the development of interventions and disparities in
addressing the societal issues.
 Promotion of the personal health
 Advancement in community wellness.
The unforeseen barriers and issues that can be seen during the implementation of the
program are the lack of the awareness among the members of the community, the inability of the
community in accessing the healthcare. The health professionals might be unwilling to a work a
community which can pose as a cultural incompetency.
In some cultures, open discussion on the sexually transmitted disease might be
considered as a taboo and the members of the community might be unable to consider the benefit
of the public health program (Rouzbehani 2017).
Question 2
The five key priorities are as follows:
 Integration of information technology into the health departments.
 To ensure nurses are culturally competent.
 To conduct seminars and workshop on the disease condition internationally.
 Increase the healthcare workforce.

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 Reduction of barriers existing in healthcare access (Budrevičiūtė, Kalėdienė and
Petrauskienė, 2018).
Question 3
For this question, the state of South Carolina is considered. The health issue chosen for
this for the policy cycle is the sexually transmitted diseases. It is important to mention that
citizens of South Carolina are largely affected from the sexually transmitted diseases. Thus the
policy that will be framed will greatly impact the sexual health of the residents of South
Carolina. The policy cycle will be consisting of the 5 major steps. The first step will be agenda
setting and in this step, attention will be focussed on a public health problem like sexually
transmitted diseases. Public health program will be undertaken to reduce the incidence of this
health issue. In the second step, policy formation will include the framing of a policy of public
health program. This step will also be including the strategies of designing the public health
program based on sexually transmitted diseases. The policy adoption is the third step and the
policy designed will be adopted so that the policy solution can be framed and applied as a
legislation. The fourth step will be implementation of policy as the policy will be effectively
implemented by the different healthcare organizations and governmental healthcare agencies.
The fifth step is the policy evaluation and the analysis of the policy over a period of time so that
the changes can be brought into the policy and the effectiveness of the policy can be increased.

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Question 4
Table 1. Program Strategy Matrix
Actions Affecting
Programs and Services
Actions Affecting Populations Served by Programs
Reduce Types or
Numbers of Clients
Keep Type or Number
of Clients the Same Add New Clients
Reduce Programs or
Services
1
Contract Scope,
Eliminate Program
2
Contract Scope, Change
Focus
3
Expand Scope, Refocus
Keep Programs or
Services the Same
4
Contract Scope, Change
Focus
5
Maintain Scope, Reduce
Costs, Improve
Efficiency, Improve
Quality
6
Expand Scope, New
Target Clients
Add New Programs or
Services
7
Contract Scope,
Refocus
8
New Services
9
Expand Scope, New
Services, New Target
Client
Table 2. Program Strategy Rationale
Program Program Strategy Matrix
Cell Rationale
Public health
program on STD
6 – Expand Scope, New
Target Clients
Environmental analysis reveals that teen
pregnancy has significantly increased and has
surpassed the national average. Implementation
of the sex education program will include the
prevention of pregnancy and STI.
Immunization 2 – Contract Scope, Change
Focus
The trend of immunization will render the
provide information on the teaching the
biological contraction of illness, providing
ample health resources so that the health literacy
in the South Carolina can be maintained.
Table 3. Budget Summary
Category Budget Expenditure ($000) Percent of Budget (%)
Community Health 50 50
Safety 20 20

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Preparedness 10 10
Administration 20 20
Total 100,000 100%
Question 5
The most important part or section of the course is the part of the environmental analysis
in which the true environmental condition of a health issue can be highlighted. The information
accrued from the environmental analysis have provided a clear picture into the sexual health, and
information regarding the food illness, food safety, common childhood illness and contraceptive
can be analysed (Embrett and Randall, 2014).
Question 6
The three things that needs to be continued in the teaching of the HCO 600 next semester
are the leadership of the public health organization, environmental analysis, and how to
formulate healthcare policies and programs.

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References
Budrevičiūtė, A., Kalėdienė, R. and Petrauskienė, J., 2018. Priorities in effective management of
primary health care institutions in Lithuania: Perspectives of managers of public and private
primary health care institutions. PloS one, 13(12), p.e0209816.
Embrett, M.G. and Randall, G.E., 2014. Social determinants of health and health equity policy
research: exploring the use, misuse, and nonuse of policy analysis theory. Social Science &
Medicine, 108, pp.147-155.
Rouzbehani, K., 2017. Health Policy Implementation: Moving Beyond Its Barriers in United
States. In Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp.
1284-1295). IGI Global.