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Level of The Public Health Pyramid Discussion 6

Select and answer one of the following questions
1. The organizational plan and the service utilization plan may include many elements and processes. What would you use as criteria for developing a set of objectives about the process theory? Would you set targets for process objectives?
2. For effect objectives at each level of the public health pyramid, which sources of data might be commonly used for establishing targets?
3. Imagine that you have been asked to explain to your colleagues in 10 minutes how to set targets for program objectives. Develop an outline of the steps involved.
4. Which of the 10 options for setting targets would be best suited to developing targets for the other four health problems in Layetteville and Bowe County? Provide some rationale for your choice. Try using your choice of target setting based on the following data: the adult immunization rate is 30%, with 25 hospitalizations per 1000 adults for influenza-related pneumonia; for children younger than 1 year old, the incidence of maltreatment is 14.0 per 1000 children (University of California at Berkeley Center for Social Services Research, http://cssr .berkeley.edu/CWSCMSreports); 1.2 adolescents are discharged with a diagnosis of gunshot wounds for every 1000 hospital admissions; neural tube defects rate is 18 per 100,000 (National Center for Health Statistics); and new diagnosis of diabetes is 7.5 per 1000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).