Need Of A Diabetes Health Promotion Program

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Question:

Identified the Need of a Diabetes Health Promotion Program.

Answer:

Introduction

As far as the assessment 1 has identified the need of a diabetes health promotion program in the area of play ford council, the present assignment is going to prepare a program plan for the project. It is required to mention here that the program would be planned for the aboriginal or for the Torres Strait Islander people and the plan would specifically address healthy eating. Along with making a plan for the aforementioned purpose, the following assignment is going to make a brief overview of the plan and a SWOT analysis of it to see whether the plan would be feasible and effective or not.

Program plan

Planning and evaluation template

Title – Diabetes awareness campaign

Goal – To increase awareness among the aboriginal people regarding various harmful effects of diabetes and regarding the need to eat healthy food

Objectives

Strategies

Process indicators

The first objective will be to educate people about the need to eat healthy foods. More, precisely, the initial objective of the program will be to increase awareness specifically among the aboriginal people of the Playford about the significance of maintaining a healthy diet. The objective will be pursued considering the importance of reducing the rate of diabetes patients in the considered area (McKenzie et al., 2016).

· Run a educational session and use of power point presentation showing the necessity of healthy diet

· Lectures by doctors and physician (Street et al., 2013)

· Taking feedbacks from the audience

The number of active enquiries from the audience

The second objective would be to educate the aboriginal audience of the Play ford area about the ways to consume healthy foods. It would be appropriate right after educating them about the necessity of healthy foods. The objective will actively contribute the goal of the program by decreasing the level of the calorigenic food consumption

· Run another educational program using power point projector

· Asking the audience about their daily intake and cooking style

· Run a program of making healthy foods

· The number of queries from the aboriginal audiences

· Number of audiences present at the cooking program

The third objective will be increasing awareness among the aboriginal people of Play ford area about the efficacy of physical activity and the lack of availability of affordable healthy food

· To run a short campaign on physical exercise

· Informing the audience the stores from where they can find affordable healthy foods

· Interactive session between audience and doctors (Sharma, 2016)

· Number of feedbacks and level of satisfaction among the audience

· Number of audiences participated in the physical exercise class

The fourth objective will be to provide the audience a detailed list of physicians and dieticians who provide service to diabetic or diabetes prone patients and have open-mind regarding the aboriginals. The objective specifically will help aboriginal diabetic patients, who could not get easy access to dieticians and physicians. At the same time, it would be attainable as several doctors and dieticians who are willing to serve for the aboriginals will be eager to participate in the program (Gowrisankaran et al., 2013).

· Online and offline research to find out physicians and dieticians who are ready to serve aboriginal diabetic patients

· Collect their contact and address as well as their consent regarding the program (Guertler et al., 2015)

· Satisfaction level of the audience and feedbacks of the audience

· An impressive extent of contact and address details of numerous physicians

· Active enthusiasm and support from the doctors

Brief overview of the program

Considering the aforementioned and elaborated objectives, strategies and data collection for the concerned diabetes awareness program, it is here important to outline a brief overview of the plan. The program should be conducted by any large NGO or health and social care service center near the play ford council area. It would be very much convenient if any legal authority or political party of the area would be related to the responsibility of conducting the program flawlessly. It is because; the program would be for the aboriginal or indigenous people of the area (Basak & Schou, 2014). Therefore, there could have been the chance for encountering any kind of resistance from the non-indigenous community of the chosen locality. Support from the local legal and political authority in time of conduct would be helpful therefore.

On the other hand, there is a need to engage several stakeholders for pursuing the considered health promotion program fruitfully. In order to successfully plan and implement the program, the following stakeholder engagement would be required –

As far as signified in assessment 1, involvement of the members of the research office in Adelaide would be required. Their consent and engagement is identified to be essential for conducting the program (Grembowski, 2015).
Members of legal and political party or government of the considered locality would be essential.
Involvement of local NGOs and social welfare groups would be necessary as they could successfully acquire consent from the local community (Lupton, 2015)
It would be essential to integrate the engagement of the local community that possesses both the indigenous and non-indigenous people
Most significantly, in terms of stakeholder, involvement of the charity house or finance organization of the Play ford area such as – Play ford operations center, Play ford Civic center, Grenville Community Connections Hub and Play ford community health center and Play ford Food Co-op would be essential for collecting money (Goetzel et al., 2014)
Finally, involvement of a good number of pathology members, physicians and dieticians would be essentially required.

However, in the project management group, involvement of the NGOs and social welfare groups and members from charity houses would be required (Thiry, 2015). For the purpose of planning and organizing, involvement of the social and health welfare groups would be necessary.

Nevertheless, in order to implement the plan successfully, a proper communication would be required. For communication with the stakeholders properly, the following methods would be required –

For communicating about the plan of the program with the physicians, both telephonic and face to face to communication would be pursued.

Similarly face-to-face and telephonic communication would be ideal for communicating with the charity groups, NGOs and members of legal and political authorities (Baum et al., 2014).

However, for communicating with the local community, face-to-face communication would be appropriate. Broadcasting through social media, pamphlets, posters, radio and newspaper would also help for the purpose of communication (Ledbetter & Mazer, 2014).

Most significantly, for accomplishing the program, the following resources would be required –

Resource type	Requirement
Human resource	Members of NGOs, legal and political authority, community and charity house
Financial	More than AUS$80,000

SWOT analysis of the program

After outlining a brief overview of the program for increasing awareness about diabetes and healthy diet among the aboriginal people of the play ford council area, it is essential now to analyze the possible strength and weakness of the program as well the probable opportunities or threats related to it. In order to accomplish that, a brief SWOT analysis is going to be pursued.

Strength

· Impressive objectives

· Help from efficient physicians and dieticians

· An initiative for the marginalized aboriginals

· Effective strategies

· Attainable data collection procedures

Weakness

· No objective for arranging blood test or normal check up

· No arrangements for giving free of cost medicines

Opportunities

· Increasing amount of awareness among the aboriginal patients

· Impressive extent of response from the target audience

· Opportunity for gaining request from the audience to arrange such a program again

Threats

· Resistance in time of conducting the program by the non-indigenous people.

· Disagreement among the doctors to come

· Lack of response from the target audience

From the above SWOT analysis, it has been understood that the program can successfully acquire impressive response from the target audience and can successfully aware the target audience regarding healthy food and harmful effect of diabetes. On the other hand, according to the above analysis, the program has not considered to include any objective for having free blood test and physical check up. Further, the program has not thought about giving free medicines to the audience. Most significantly, there is a chance that the program may not get active participation and consent from the doctors. Moreover, enormous resistance can come from the non-indigenous people of the considered area.

The above-mentioned probable threats and weakness would not help to properly accomplish the program goal; therefore the following steps would be required –

A legal consent from the local non-indigenous people regarding the arrangement of the program prior to organize it
An arrangement of health check up and blood test at the end of the show
At least two prescribed medicines for free of cost to each of the individual from the audience

Conclusion

From the above assignment, it has been understood that the three main objectives of the health promotion plan would be to increase awareness regarding healthy eating, awareness regarding the harmful effect of diabetes and to provide contact details of the physicians and dieticians. However, from the SWOT analysis, it has been understood that the weakness of the program is, it does not include any initiative to provide free of cost medicines and health checkups. Therefore, the assignment ash implied that at the final stage of the program, there should a campaign for providing at least two free of cost prescribed medicines along with health checkups.

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