The document discusses the concept and steps of health planning, emphasizing the need to manage limited resources to meet increasing health demands. It outlines the goals, objectives, targets, and the planning cycle, which includes analyzing health situations, establishing objectives, assessing resources, and evaluating outcomes. The ultimate aim is to enhance community health through accessible, effective, and equitable health services.

1. Health planning steps
Sapna thakur
M.Sc.[N] Community health nursing

2. Concept of health
planning
• Health planning
• Purpose of health planning
• What is health needs and
demand?
• What are the goals,
objectives & targets?
• Steps of planning cycle
• summary

3. PLANNING
• The increasing demands
for medical and health
care services in the face
of limited resources, Has
brought out the need for
careful planning and
management of health
services.

4. Purpose
of
planning
• The purpose of planning are:
• To match the limited resources
with many problems
• To eliminate wasteful
expenditure and avoid
duplication.
• To develop the best course of
action to accomplish a defined
objective.

5. Introduction
HEALTH PLANNING
“The orderly process of defining community
health problems, Identifying unmet needs and
surveying the resources to meet them,
establishing priority goals that are realistic and
feasible and projecting administrative action to
accomplish the purpose of the proposed
programme’’.
WHO

6. Health needs &
demands
The purpose of health planning is to meet the
health needs of the demands of the people.
Health needs is defines as’’ the call for
preventive, curative, control and eradication
measures”
For example:
• the needs for safe water supply and sanitation
• Control of communicable diseases
• Medical care including hospital facilities,
dispensaries, and primary health centers,
family planning, adequate nutrition and
immunization are all community needs.

7. Goals, objectives &
targets
An important element of planning is setting
of clear cut goals, objectives and targets.
Goals: an ultimate desired state towards
which the objectives and resources
directed. Goals are not constrained by time
resources nor are they necessarily
attainable.
Objectives: it is planned end of all activities.
It is stated in term of measured amount of
progress towards goals

8. Targets: when the objectives is split
into discreate activity it become target
Example:
Number of sputum smear collected or
tubectomy done

9. PLANNING CYCLE
IMPLEMENTATION
EVALUATION
PLANNING

10. PLANNING INVOLVES FOLLOWING
STEPS:
1. Analysis of health situation
2. Establishment of objectives and goals
3. Assessment of resources
4. Fixing priorities
5. Write-up Formulate plan
6. Programming and implementation
7. Evaluation

11. a) Analysis of health situation
the essential requirements of health planning include
The population its age and sex structure
Mortality and morbidity statistics
The epidemiology and geographical distribution of
diseases
Medical care facilities such as hospitals, health
centres public and private health agencies.
The man-power available

12. Training facilities available.
Beliefs and attitude towards health, diseases,
its cure and prevention.
The analyse of above data brings out health
problems, needs and demands of the population

13. (b) Establishment of goals and objectives
 Objectives are needed for economical and better performance of programme
 Objectives should be established at all levels(general& specific)
 Objectives should be long term and short term. In setting up these objectives
time and resources are important factors
 Objective should be “ SMART”
specific measurable achievable relevant
Time
bound

14. (c) Assessment of resources
Man-power
Money
Material
Skills
Knowledge and techniques needed or available
for the implementation of the health
programmes

15. (d) Fixing priorities
 Establish the priorities in the order of magnitude of health
problems.
 Prioritization is based on financial constraint, mortality and
morbidity data, diseases which can be prevented at low
cost, political and community interest.
 Once the priorities are established alternatives plans are
formulated and assessed to determine whether they are
practicable feasible.
 Alternate plan with greater effectiveness are chosen.

16. (e) Formulation of plan
Once the priorities are established
the needed to formulate plan is
calculated.
The plan should be complete in all
aspect
The input requirement for health
programme and output expected.
Most important step in planning
cycle

17. (f) Programming and implementation
 Once the programmes is approved by policy making
authorities programming and implementation are begun.
 The effective implementation of programme depends upon
the existence of effective organization.
 The things need to be focused during implementation are:
 Define the role and task
 Selection, training, motivation and supervision of the man-
power involved.
 The efficiency of implementing institution.

18. Evaluation
Evaluation is the final step of planning cycle. It should be
both concurrent and terminal. The purpose of evolution is to
assess the achievements of stated objectives, its adequacy,
efficiency and its acceptance by the people.
Evaluation means degree to which objectives and targets are
fulfilled and the quality of result obtained.

19. Types of evaluation
structure evaluation: personnel,
money, material or building
process evaluation: the way various
activities of the programme is carried. How the inputs are utilize to
produce an output of service.
outcome evaluation: this is concerned
with the end result of the outcome.

20. The way to get
started is to quit
talking and
begin doing.
Walt Disney

21. Summary
The main aim of health planning is
maintain and improve the health status o
a given community through the provisio
of health services which are:
Accessible( eg- geographical, financia
social)
Effective and appropriate servic
programmes which successfully de
with high priority needs)
Equitable- that those most in need wi
receive proportionally more care)

22. Thank you
Sapna Thakur
thakursapna82788@gmail.com