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HEALTH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
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INTRODUCTION
Planning is for tomorrow and management is for today.
Purpose of planning :
To match limited resources with many problems.
To eliminate wasteful expenditure.
To develop best course of action to accomplish an objective.
Health planning: It is the process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs, surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are feasible and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of proposed programme.
Resources : manpower, money, material, time, skills
MANAGEMENT
It is effective and purposeful use of resources for fulfilling a predetermined objective.
It has 4 basic activities:
Planning – determining what is to be done
Organizing – setting up the framework and making it possible for groups to do the work
Communicating – motivating people
METHODS BASED ON BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Organizational design:
Health services should be so designed to meet the health needs and demands of people. It should be reviewed every few years because of change in concept ,purpose, problems or technology.
Personnel management:
It is skillful use of human resources like selection and training ,motivation ,division of responsibilities, incentives and promotions.
Communication :
Communication barriers cause delay in reporting, notification and release of supplies. It should be solved by establishing suitable vertical and horizontal communication channels.
Information system:
It helps in collection , classification, transmission, storage, retrieval, transformation and display of information.