Exam 4: Choosing a Social Issue, Purpose, and Focus for Your Plan: Conducting a Situation Analysis

What is the plan's purpose statement?

What is the social issue you are picking for this exercise?

What are at least 3 barriers that parents have to ensuring timely childhood immunization that were mentioned?

What might be one example of an external opportunity to take advantage of?

Provide one hypothetical Background information/data that led to the development of the plan?

What was mentioned as one of the major distinctions between Organizational Factors and External Forces?

The research methodology was described as an example of participatory action research. How do you think this approach led to the focus on providing the loan of a pig?

What are the advantages of choosing a Focus for your plan?

Where might you explore to find a prior/similar effort?

What might be one example of an organizational strength to maximize?

What are 2 barriers that providers have to ensuring timely childhood immunizations?

What is a potential focus?

What might be one example of an external threat to prepare for?

What might be one example of an organizational weakness to minimize?

Identify one strategy for each of the ones mentioned in Q16. that the case mentioned were utilized?

Who is the hypothetical sponsoring organization(s) for the plan?

Identify one strategy for each of these that the case mentioned they utilized?

Assume you work for a county public health department and are developing a social marketing plan to reduce the spread of disease through contaminated needles among drug-injection users? You've chosen a focus of a needle exchange program. What do you say to a colleague who is working on reducing the use of drugs among this population and concerned this will increase use?