a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning
What is a SWOT analysis?
Differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care between population groups. Higher measured exposure to specific risk.
What are disparities?
Who are public health professionals?
Government, institutional and organizational rules, regulations, and priorities that guide the entity’s own and others’ actions.
What are policies?
Specific; Measureable; Action Oriented (Achievable); Realistic/relevant; Time-Bound
What is a SMART objective?
a tool that helps managers oversee all aspects of their projects while tracking progress
What is a Gantt chart?
Differences in health that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair + unjust; Rooted in social injustices that make some groups more vulnerable to poor health than others
What are health inequities?
Lead from where you are.
What is the philosophy (or motto) of this course?
Espoused activities of institutions, coalitions, networks, and other entities targeted to improving social and environmental progress. Also, within the entity, the procedures, guidelines, or informal shared habits that comprise their work.
What are practices?
This can help you understand what a business or organization prioritizes
What is a budget?
Influencing people towards common goal(s); Seeking constructive change; “Big picture”; “Doing the right thing”
What do leaders do?
A competency that can be developed; natural for some but something that can be learned.
What is leadership?
How money, people, knowledge, information, and other assets such as infrastructure are allocated and distributed.
What are resource flows?
A tool to identify and understand the needs, expectations and power of major interests inside and outside the project/issue environment
What is stakeholder analysis?
Coordinating, planning, monitoring people or things; Establishing order; “Nuts and bolts”; “Doing things right”
What do managers do?
The Individual; Collaborating with Others; The Organization; Boundary Spanning and Systems
What are the four phases of this course?
Habits of thought—deeply held beliefs and assumptions and taken-for-granted ways of operating that influence how we think, what we do, and how we talk.
What are mental models?
Process that establishes key priorities to advance the mission and aims of an organization
What is strategic planning?
Cross-sector collaboration; Environmental, policy, and systems-level actions; Directly affect social determinants of health
Understanding others through understanding _____
What is yourself?
Quality of connections and communication occurring among actors in the system, especially among those with differing histories and viewpoints.
What are relationships and connections?