Health Planning pretest

The first step in the process of planning a health programme would be

• Assessment of the resources

• Setting up priorities

• Analysing the health situation

• Monitoring

Arrange the following steps in planning a health programme, in the sequential & ideal order:

a) Setting up priorities

b) Evaluation

c) Analysis of health situation

d)Implementation

• c-a-d-b

• a-b-c-d

• a-c-d-b

• c-d-a-b

Clear cut and more precise statement of the endpoint intended to be reached is called as

• Target

• Objective

• Vision

• Mission

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of planning?

• Change oriented

• Utilizes systems approach of looking at causes as well as solutions

• Utilizing choices amongst various alternative courses of action

• Should be rigid and fixed

What the community members percieve are their needs, are known as

• Assessed needs

• Felt needs

• Professionally assessed needs

• Minimum needs

The missing Link in this planning cycle is

True/ False: The priorities in health planning should be based on the interests of the planner

• True

• False

The objectives of any plan needs to be "SMART". Here "A" stands for_____

In the planning phase, multiple plans need to be developed and the most effective plan needs to identified. True/ False

• True

• False

All of the following headings are taken into consideration for according priorities (through scoring system) in the conduct of a health care programme, EXCEPT

• Importance

  of disease

• Effectiveness of interventions

• Cost of

  interventions

• High risk groups