Analysis of Public Health Implementation Strategies (Essay Sample)

Public Health Implementation Strategies: Scenario 2
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Public Health Implementation Strategies: Scenario 2
Public health is critical in ensuring disease prevention, community education, children wellness, disaster relief, minority empowerment, and access to basic human needs. Public health workers ought to give more attention to the most vulnerable communities and address matters of social justice. Community education is crucial as it helps prevent illnesses, ensure faster treatment, and prevent conflict over access to health service systems. Thus, public health workers have the responsibility to identify community needs and seek resources to overcome challenges.
The ‘healthcare in rural communities’ video offers a viable example on the role and impacts of public health experts. Although the professionals made significant strides in improving the healthcare of people in rural areas of Belize, they should have diversified their awareness creation program. According to the video, some women faced problems of domestic abuse, which tampered with their health and that of their children (Laureate Education, 2012g). Despite the low police to village ratio, the program should have sought assistance in implementing a community watch program that reports men who abuse their wives to local authorities. Such a program would also include marital education to ensure strong familial bonds despite health or financial barriers.
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The scenario focuses on the creation of a smoking cessation program that primarily targets teenagers to prevent them from becoming addicts or obtaining poor health conditions. Such a program would be challenging to implement as the whole community derives its economic stability from tobacco farming. However, the alarming rate of cancer patients in the community may sway these teenagers away from cigarette smoking. The program would utilize the MAP-IT model in planning for the intervention. According to the Community Tool Box (2020), a program must mobilize, assess, plan, implement, and finally track its activities. The mobilization process would include identifying the stakeholders necessary for the program. Stakeholders would include hospitals, agencies, teenagers, their parents, educators, and financiers. The process also requires creating a viable vision that would appeal to the teenagers. The assessment process necessitates identifying the real reasons behind the smoking problem and failure in its cessation in the area. In such a case, it is likely that all the teenager’s role models and guardians smoke, making it difficult to direct them against tobacco. Other factors such as policy making criteria and individual behavior also play a role in the community’s problem.
The planning, implementation, and tracking process would be swift after an effective assessment. The implementation would be based on both healthcare and community settings to maximize on the results. While the healthcare setting would be more reliant on medical professional opinions, the community setting would focus on the client’s needs.
In the community setting, the most viable strategy would be to restructure healthcare decision making from professional dominated to more community involvement. Aston and Meagher-Stewart (2009) contend that creating a relationship of mutuality and trust with the selected community leads to program success and empowerment. Successful partnerships between these teenagers and professionals would require significant healthcare education. Thus, the program would employ health educators with good communication skills and with proper knowledge of the community and its cultures. The healthcare setting stra