Learning journal unit 8 The World Health Organization (WHO) is a global institution that plays a vital role in shaping international health policies and strategies. While the WHO strategy has its strengths, it also has its weaknesses. Some of the strengths of the WHO strategy include its global reach and influence, its ability to coordinate and mobilize resources, and its commitment to equity and social justice. The WHO has a presence in nearly every country, which enables it to gather data and monitor health trends on a global scale. This global reach also allows the WHO to promote and disseminate best practices in healthcare and public health. Furthermore, the WHO's ability to coordinate and mobilize resources is crucial in times of crisis, …show more content…
It involves translating the strategy into action and ensuring that the necessary resources, infrastructure, and stakeholders are in place to achieve the desired outcomes. Key aspects of implementation include leadership and governance, capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation. Effective leadership and governance are essential to ensure that there is a clear plan, accountability, and coordination among different stakeholders. Capacity building involves providing the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources to implement the strategy effectively. This may include training healthcare professionals, strengthening healthcare systems, and establishing monitoring and evaluation systems. Lastly, monitoring and evaluation are vital to assess the progress and impact of the strategy and make necessary adjustments as needed. The WHO strategy's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the crucial elements of strategic communication and implementation, are not the only important factors to acknowledge. The WHO strategy must prioritize collaboration with other organizations, governments, and civil society. Health strategies need to adopt a multi-sectoral approach, emphasizing interconnected factors and cooperation. Additionally, they must be designed for long-term impact with sustainable funding and …show more content…
One challenge is the complexity of the healthcare system, which involves multiple stakeholders with different priorities and perspectives. Aligning these diverse interests and ensuring effective collaboration can be challenging. Additionally, there may be hierarchical structures and power dynamics within healthcare organizations that hinder effective teamwork. Addressing these challenges requires strong leadership, open communication channels, and a culture of mutual respect and trust. Lastly, resource constraints in healthcare, such as limited staffing or financial resources, can also pose challenges to teamwork. These constraints may lead to increased workloads and burnout, which can affect teamwork and collaboration. It is important to address these resource constraints by advocating for adequate resources and support for healthcare teams. Overall, effective teamwork requires ongoing commitment, communication, and support from strategic
collaboration, Inter-professional collaboration is inevitable. Inter-professional has been defined in many ways. World Health Organization (2010) has put it simply as collaboration among health workers from different professional backgrounds working together with patients, families, other caregivers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care. This is well echoed by the health care industry who clearly recognizes that patient care requires a collaborative team effort involving multiple
essential to very large organizations, but extremely advantageous as well for small to medium sized (SMB) businesses in general, because this method of accounting allows a business to explain whose, what, when, where and why, and justify if necessary, money is invested and spent concerning a company’s finances. There is also the aspect of better management through collection of pertinent data and reporting of this data from each individual department within larger organizations. There are many examples
Our Language Access program continues to make a positive impact on the Health and Human Services delivery system in Palm Beach County by developing medical interpreting knowledge for bi-lingual staff, enhancing the language skill-set of English-only key staff, improving the Health/Human service providers’ linguistically appropriate services, and helping bi-lingual volunteers to make life better for our communities. Although we have been providing training on interpreting skills to bi-lingual staff
live illegally in an abandoned building; others may sleep in public buildings, such as airports or train stations; still others may spend the night outdoors under bridges, in parks, or on the street” (Allard par 10). “About 100 million people in the world are homeless” (Allard par 1).
It is stated in the National Blood Transfusion Service (2013) guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) that donor recruitment must begin from donors who belong in a low risk, safe and healthy population of a community. It is also strongly prohibited to pay any donors. The blood transfusion process is a very thorough and meticulous process to ensure the safety of the donor and the recipient of the blood unit. Blood donor recruitment begins with the dissemination of pre-donation information
better by understanding the “know how” of the people. The company’s strongest impact and contribution to sustainability lies in the critical parts of their business which leads to the success and diversity of our associates (customers), food safety, health and nutrition, strong supply chain, environmental factors, and community/stakeholder engagement and impact of the people along with the CSR initiatives. The Yum! Brand strategy centers on four key important pillars: People, Food, Community and
selecting staff in an organization through proper and effective normination. It also involves the appraisal and development of the personnel to fill vacant post in the workforce. 7.1. PERSONAL CONCEPT According to Mc Farland, “staffing is the function by which managers build an organization through recruitment, selection and development of individuals as capable employees.” I personally believe that no organization can stand without staffing. Staffing is necessary in every organization because of - Increasing
superiors/seniors for the betterment of the organization in terms of the culture and ethics within the organization. Goal of Yum! : Yum! always be considered as a preferred restaurant for customers looking for a delicious and balanced option by offering three important things- more choices by attributing to their menu and providing great tasting food, more transparency by promoting physical activity programs and importantly nutritional improvements to ingredients keeping the health of the customer in mind. For
In response to address issue of health information system and to enhance health related information for decision making, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 launched Health Metric Network. The metric has two focuses to strengthen health system in developing countries; one is to improve the entire health information and statistical system, the second is to concentrate efforts on strengthening country leadership for health information production and use. To meet the above main focuses, the
The Three Mile Island Accident When someone thinks of problems plaguing the world, nuclear energy is not the first thing that comes to peoples minds these days.[1]Nuclear power was once deemed the new energy of the future.[2]However, numerous nuclear power plant accidents around the world put a damper on that notion.The United States considers itself one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, but 103 nuclear reactors currently operating within her borders, one was bound to
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a World Health Organization’s (WHO) key scientific tool that “provides a standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related states” (WHO, 2002). ICF focusses on health and functioning and not on disability with a goal of always to measure function in the society regardless of an individual’s impairments (WHO, 2002). ICF helps epidemiologists to collect valuable health related information in a consistent manner
Article Analysis: The Nursing Shortage Nursing shortages have occurred in health care throughout history, and especially since World War II. Just as the legion of baby boomers is about to swell the need for quality health care, America's nursing population is aging and more nurses are moving into primary care settings and into other disciplines. As a result, America's hospitals and other institutions need more nurses, especially those who deliver specialized care. As a healthcare provider
was established in 1888 as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. ALCOA is the leading producer of aluminum. During the mid-80’s the President at the time Fred Fetterolf determined that the organization should achieve values in which they serve. The values that were selected and posted are integrity, environment, health, and safety. Alcoa was based on great values; this suggested that their workers had to learn and follow the core values at the start of their profession. The employees conceded that whatever
Alin Makardian Connected Health in Spain HSCI 415 California State University Northridge Connected Health in Spain Instituto Nacional de la Salud, is Spain’s national healthcare system. Spain enjoys a national healthcare system that is based on universal healthcare. Their system covers 100% of nationals regardless of their economic standings. In recent reforms in European nations, they have divided the system to provide improved access, time quality and better increase their outreach
determining the viability of healthcare organizations [HCO] (Ginter, Duncan, & Swayne, 2013, p. 36). Peter Drucker, who is known as a business visionary and recognized for his contributions to modern management, states that business leaders should not be as focused on warding off crises, but rather, they should be engaged in anticipating them (Drucker School of Management, 2016; Drucker, as cited in Ginter et al., p. 36). The environmental assessment helps organizations foresee and plan for some significant