Scholar-Practitioner Project: Public Health Program & Disease Control

This scholar-practitioner project outlines a public health program focused on disease control and prevention, addressing goals such as controlling high blood pressure, reducing obesity, and minimizing transmissible diseases. The program incorporates SMART objectives, including yoga classes, healthy diets with limited sodium, and weight reduction strategies through physical activities to manage blood pressure. To combat obesity, the program introduces healthy eating habits, reduces alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage intake, and promotes natural fruit juices. Furthermore, the project aims to reduce transmissible diseases by providing clean water in remote areas, improving sanitation through hygiene education, and implementing immunization programs with effective vaccines. Each objective is designed to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound, with timelines ranging from 3 to 8 months, ensuring a structured and effective approach to improving public health outcomes. This assignment is available on Desklib, where students can find similar resources and study tools.

Running head: SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER PROJECT
SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER PROJECT
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Public health programme for disease control and prevention
Goal 1: Control high blood pressure level.
Objective 1: Provide yoga class to reduce the stress.
SMART framework
Specific Provide a yoga class to the population to reduce stress.
Measurable Blood pressure of the people with measuring instrument to monitor the
pressure.
Achievable Achievable through providing information about the benefits of yoga in
reducing stress of a person.
Relevant Yoga helps to decrease the stress level, thus reduce blood pressure
(Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration, 2015).
Time bound 4 months.
Objective 2: Introducing healthy diet.
SMART framework
Specific Introducing healthy diet that contain limited amount of sodium.
Measurable Through blood test sodium level could be determined.
Achievable It could be achieved through informing the people about the harmful
effect of high sodium level.
Relevant It could help to reduce blood pressure as reduction in sodium level in the
blood helps to reduce high blood pressure (Blood Pressure Lowering

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Treatment Trialists' Collaboration, 2015).
Time bound 6 months.
Objective 3: Reducing the weight.
SMART framework
Specific Reducing weight through effective physical activities.
Measurable The weight of individual could be measured through weighing machine.
Achievable Introducing light exercise and other physical activities like walking and
cycling could help to achieve the expected outcomes.
Relevant It could help to reduce blood pressure through weight loss ((Blood
Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration, 2015).
Time bound 3 months.
Goal 2: Reduce Obesity.
Objective 1: Introduce healthy eating habit.
SMART framework
Specific Introduce healthy diet containing appropriate amount of essential
nutrients.
Measurable The choice of food of individual.
Achievable It could be achieved through providing education related to healthy diet
and nutrition.

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Relevant Healthy diet helps to reduce weight and maintain healthy lifestyle (Li et
al., 2015).
Time bound 6 months.
Objective 2: Reduce the intake of alcohol.
SMART framework
Specific Reduce drinking alcohol by providing healthy supplement.
Measurable Through specific blood test alcohol level in blood could be measured.
Achievable Effective healthy supplement could help to achieve desired outcomes.
Relevant Alcohol is high caloric drink, thus reduction the intake could help to
reduce obesity (Li et al., 2015).
Time bound 8 months.
Objective 3: Reducing the sugar sweetened beverages intake.
SMART framework
Specific Reducing the intake of sugar beverages like soft drinks and increase
intake of natural fruit juice.
Measurable Blood sugar level could be measured through sugar testing equipment
and blood test.
Achievable It is one of the most difficult step but could be achieved through
Relevant Reducing intake of high caloric unhealthy drinks could help to reduce
the weight (Li et al., 2015).

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Time bound 6 months.
Goal 3: Reduce transmissible disease.
Objective 1: Providing clean water to the remote areas.
SMART framework
Specific Access clean water to the poor people in remote areas.
Measurable Survey regarding water born disease could measure the outcome.
Achievable Providing water tank in the rural area and introducing program to
provide water in rural place could help to achieve expected outcomes
(Fertman & Allensworth, 2017).
Relevant Use of clean drinking water could reduce the rate of water born disease.
Time bound 6 months.
Objective 2: Improve sanitation.
SMART framework
Specific Improve sanitation through healthy habits like washing hand before
eating.
Measurable Survey could measure the rate of reduction in transmissible disease due
to lack of sanitation.
Achievable It could be achieved through providing knowledge about the benefits of
sanitation.

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Relevant Improved sanitation provides hygienic environment thus could reduce
the rate of transmissible disease (Aguzzi, Nuvolone & Zhu, 2013).
Time bound 6 months.
Objective 3: Providing immunization programme.
SMART framework
Specific Providing effective vaccines in the immunization programme.
Measurable Health survey could provide data about rate of reduction in transmissible
disease.
Achievable Vaccination to the infants, pregnant women and children could help to
achieve desired outcomes.
Relevant Vaccination for specific transmissible disease provides immunity against
the disease thus could reduce the rate of such disease (Aguzzi, Nuvolone
& Zhu, 2013).
Time bound 3 months

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Reference:
Aguzzi, A., Nuvolone, M., & Zhu, C. (2013). The immunobiology of prion diseases. Nature
Reviews Immunology, 13(12), 888.
Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration. (2015). Effects of blood pressure
lowering on cardiovascular risk according to baseline body-mass index: a meta-analysis
of randomised trials. The Lancet, 385(9971), 867-874.
Fertman, C. I., & Allensworth, D. D. (Eds.). (2017). Health promotion programs: From theory to
practice (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Li, P., Brown, A. W., Oakes, J. M., & Allison, D. B. (2015). Comment on “School-Based
Obesity Prevention Intervention in Chilean Children: Effective in Controlling, but not
Reducing Obesity”. Journal of obesity, 2015.