Outline the steps in planning a health care project. Explain in detail how you would analyse, list out and priorities the identified health problem ? Please give answer in detail

Steps in planning  a health care Project: 

Step 1: Initiation

Healthcare project managers set the purpose and scope of the project. They perform cost estimates to predict the required financial resources, then anticipate challenges and prepare solutions. Once the initiation stage is complete, they send the project details to the facility's organisational leaders for approval.

Step 2: Planning

Once the project meets with approval, the managers outline each task. Then they establish deadlines and assign the staff responsible for the task's completion. Having allocated staff, project managers set the project's budget and time frame.

Step 3 : Execution

Project managers keep projects on track and organised with personal oversight. Challenges during the project's execution can take different elements back to the planning stage. These require additional approval from supervisors or stakeholders.

Prioritization Process

• Identify community problems 
• Assess the impact of each problem 
on the community 
• Prioritize the identified problems 
for action 

Step-by-step explanation

Hospitals are at their discretion to develop prioritization criteria and processes. A set of criteria should be determined to guide the prioritization process. Typically, three to six priorities are selected, based on:

• Magnitude of the problem
• Severity of the problem
• Need among vulnerable populations
• Community's capacity and willingness to act on the issue
• Ability to have a measurable impact on the issue
• Availability of hospital and community resources
• Existing interventions focused on the issue
• Whether the issue is a root cause of other problems
• Trending health concerns in the community

Additional prioritization criteria can include:

• The importance of each problem to community members
• Evidence that an intervention can change the problem
• Alignment with an organization's existing priorities
• Hospital's ability to contribute finances and resources to address the health concern
• Potential challenges or barriers to addressing the need
• The opportunity to intervene at the prevention level