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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Vaccine safety; belief fully immunized; don't know the schedule; language barriers; financial barriers

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Less/no control over external forces

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

This approach is a community based approach and that was critical to the research objective which was to understanding the needs of the target audience, dynamics of the community and the solutions that might work. The interviews were conducted by members of the community and were therefore more likely to encourage deep sharing. The systematic analysis of the finding created themes that inspired a focus on the loan of a pig.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

What is a potential focus?

Question 13

What is the plan's purpose statement?

Question 14

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

Question 15

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?

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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