A team approach is essential for effectively implementing health programs. The team consists of health personnel with defined roles and responsibilities headed by a leader. The leader evaluates the team and understands each member's motivations. Each member is responsible for achieving shared goals. Forming the health team requires defining objectives, developing an implementation plan, and assigning tasks related to manpower, training, equipment, transport, and administration. Monitoring and evaluation are important for tracking progress and making improvements.

2. TEAM APPROACH FOR
IMPLEMENTING
HEALTH PROGRAMS
presenter: Dr. Chandra ReddyVudem
Moderator: Dr. Suguna Dampula

3. INTRODUCTION
• Team approach has been adapted from sports.
• This is essential to implement health programs effectively and efficiently.
• Team consists of health personnel with defined roles to play to achieve the
set objectives/goals.
• Team is always headed by a leader
• The leader should
• Evaluate the team adequately.
• Know the motivations of each member in order to stimulate and enhance
their potentialities.

4. Cont.
• Every member in the team is given the responsibility to achieve shared goals.
• Health team approach aims to produce the right “mix” of health personal for providing full
health coverage of the entire population.
• What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of
this very contemptuous pride by Dr. A.P.J. Abbul kalam- it stops us from listening
to our juniors, subordinates, people down the line

7. Formation of health team
• A number of tasks one after another and/or together have to be performed for the
achievement of the objectives.
• The Break-up into the tasks should be done
• Manpower
• Training
• Equipment
• Other supplies including drugs
• Transport
• Time
• Administrative

8. Definition of objectives
• Complete answer to question- what is to be achieved?
• End result of the activities- clearly identified and defined

9. Formulation of implementation plan
• This includes information on:
• The area
• Community
• And other facilities
• Information related to health situation
• Information related to health care and other developmental programs

10. Functions of a Physician/Manager
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Directing
• Coordinating
• Reviewing

11. Management process
• Establish specific purpose and mission of the health program
• Make work productive and worker effective
• Manage social impact and social responsibility
• Its task is
• to make people capable of joint performance
• To make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant

12. Management activities
• Defining aims and objectives
• Strategic, tactical and operational planning
• Obtaining material, human and financial resources
• Defining tasks of individuals, and groups for making effective use
• Managing work relationship by motivation, delegation, supervision, team
building, etc.
• Scanning the object being managed
• Identifying problems to assess their significance

13. Cont.
• Developing and enlarging skills and capabilities
• Monitoring, control, and evaluation
• Self management, time and stress management

14. Monitoring and Feedback
• Problem recognition
• Identification of alternative actions
• Selection of the most appropriate action

15. Evaluation
• Immunization coverage – cluster sampling

16. Vertical and general health programs

17. Line and staff function

18. Technical vs administrative control

19. Accountability and lines of authority

20. Unity of command

21. Delegation
• Delegation of Powers to subordinate

22. Management training of health
professionals

23. Challenges of team approach

24. Monitoring
• While implementing health programs
• Monitoring of the manner in which health resources are used and activities are
carried out is required
• Comparison of what is actually happening with what is intended to happen
• Identify deviations from expectations, so that activities can be put back on the
right track.
• Provides necessary information for take actions
• Delegated to field workers or gadgets
• E.g. Growth monitor, Water quality monitoring, Air quality, Cardiac monitors in
ICU

25. Evaluation
• Systematic way of learning from experience
• Using the lessons learnt to improve current activities