A public health plan is created in response to a needs assessment and defines the planned intervention to improve the health of the priority population. The public health plan also provides a detailed description of each activity to be conducted in the implementation of the public health plan.

This lesson is intended to assist students in the development of a public health program to address the health disparity that they researched in the creation of their Needs Assessment from Lesson #2. A sample Needs Assessment plan is included in the resources section in the event that a teacher would like to forego lesson #2.

2 hours

2 Class Periods

Grade Levels

• 11
• 12

Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (1) Show Standards

• SEP.AQDP.AK.A Analyze complex real-world problems by specifying criteria and constraints for successful solutions.

California's 2013 CTE Standards (3) Show Standards

• CTE.HSMT.E.2.3 Understand various strategies to improve the health status of individuals and the community.
• CTE.HSMT.E.2.7 Demonstrate ways in which enhancing and maintaining personal health and well-being are established.
• CTE.HSMT.KPAS.5.3 Use systems thinking to analyze how various components interact with each other to produce outcomes in a complex work environment.

Related Instructional Objectives (SWBAT...)

• Students will work in collaborative learning groups to create a public health plan.
• Each group will develop a vision statement to provide a glimpse of what overall success of their public health plan will look like.
• Each group will develop a mission statement that defines what is to be done and why it should be done to realize a successful outcome from the public health plan.
• Each group will develop at least 3 specific, measurable, and achievable program objectives.
• Each group will provide a description of the strategies that will be used to meet each objective.