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SMART Guidelines (Reflection Paper)

Instructions

Reflect on the vaccine program presented in this week’s Introduction. Vague goals such as “save the lives of babies” can be improved by turning them into goals with objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely (SMART). For example, instead of just “increase rates,” one could be specific by stating, “Change knowledge, attitudes, and behavior so parents will vaccinate their children.” This objective could be made measurable by adding “so that rates will be 10% higher than the current 74% infant vaccination rate.” In order to be achievable an objective should be doable, and to be relevant projects should actually make a difference to the target community. Finally, always designate time limits, such as “by the end of 2020.” Many federal funding agencies now require objectives to be stated according to SMART Guidelines.

For this Assignment, use the SMART guidelines to draft one goal and three supporting objectives for your SPP.

Writer: The community Health Issue I selected was: “The growing and high prevalence of childhood obesity in the State of Alabama”.

Assignment Details

Write a FULL 5 Pages:

  • Explanation of three potential implications of having poorly articulated goals and objectives for a public health program.
  • Describe the goal and objectives you drafted.
  • Finally, explain how these goals and objectives can contribute to the effectiveness of your public health program.

Support your response using the Learning Resources and the current literature.

Be sure to support your paper and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources, the current literature and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

Developing Goals and Objectives In Health Care Programs (Reflection Paper)

Developing Goals and Objectives

Imagine that you are a public health professional working with an organization concerned with childhood diseases. You are concerned about the growing number of parents who do not want to immunize their children because of rumors about vaccine risks. Because you believe this might contribute to many future childhood health problems, you consider developing a public program, in this case, a vaccine program.

As part of the funding application process, you must state your program goals. You write, “I want to increase immunization rates and save the lives of babies.”

Your intentions may be noble, but you may need to define your goals and objectives more clearly, in ways that show they can be measured and assessed. For example, how will you increase immunization rates, and in what time frame?

This week, you examine implications of goals and objectives and create your own goals and objectives following established guidelines for your Scholar-Practitioner Project. You also finalize your group project to analyze the impact of planning and other improvements on program effectiveness.

Learning Objectives

Students will:
  • Analyze implications of goals and objectives for public health programs
  • Apply goals and SMART guidelines to public health programs
  • Analyze contributions of goals and objectives to the effectiveness of public health programs
  • Analyze effectiveness of public health programs
  • Analyze impact of program planning
  • Apply strategies to improve program planning

Required Readings

Fertman, C. I., & Allensworth, D. D. (Eds.). (2017). Health promotion programs: From theory to practice (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

  • Chapter 5, “Making Decisions to Create and Support a Program” (pp. 113-139)

https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/resourcekit/evaluate/smart_objectives.html

Health Belief Model (HBM)

Required

Desceription of the theories and models in health care and their applications.