IPLAN Research Paper- WOODFORD COUNTY IL
PHHE 469 Online IPLAN Checklist Class Discussion/Completion: Weeks 5-14
What makes a good IPLAN? We know it is central to the concept of community health planning in Illinois, but what are the formal and informal elements of a really good IPLAN document that can
actually be used by both planning professionals and the general public?
“The Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) is a community health assessment and planning process that is conducted every five years by local health jurisdictions in Illinois. Based on the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEX-PH) model, IPLAN is grounded in the core functions of public health and addresses public health practice standards.
The completion of IPLAN fulfills most of the requirements for Local Health Department certification under Illinois Administrative Code Section 600.400: Certified Local Health Department Code Public Health Practice Standards.
The essential elements of an IPLAN are: see “Course Information” for examples of these “essential elements” of an IPLAN:
- an organizational capacity assessment;
- a community health needs assessment; and
- a community health plan, focusing on a minimum of three priority health problems.”
(Illinois Department of Public Health, 2013). These items speak to the formal, government-required elements of an IPLAN.
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In addition, there are other informal criteria which are important to have in any good public planning document:
- Accessibility, Availability and Acceptability of the IPLAN. County Health Departments take the lead in Illinois. Is your County IPLAN available online? Is it clear, and easy to understand? Does the document itself use a lot of technical jargon, or is it expressed in nontechnical language anyone could understand? How user-friendly is the website? Does the IPLAN have a Table of Contents? Executive Summary? Elements presented in a logical order? Is there a glossary of terms used in the IPLAN somewhere in the IPLAN or at the end of the Plan? Can the IPLAN be easily downloaded?
- Reliability and Validity of Data Set Information: Does the county IPLAN you’re working with
include a mandated data set? Does the data set seem to support the goals and objectives presented in the IPLAN itself? How old are the data sets provided? How reliable are these data? If the data sets are more than 4 years old, where would you go to get updated data? How valid are the data sets? What would you do to improve this problem? (Be sure to define “validity” and “reliability” and why both concepts are important to having a usable data set).
>Please see page 3 of this assignment for directions for completion of the Paper and the PowerPoint presentation.
page 2 IPLAN
Another accepted way to do IPLANS is MAPP (Mobilization for Action through Planning and Partnerships. MAPP is a community-wide assessment and strategic tool for improving health, developed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
MAPP provides communities with a framework to collect and analyze health data; identify and prioritize community health issues; and develop and implement action plans that address defined needs.
There are four MAPP assessments:
- Community Health Status: The collection, analysis and presentation of quantitative data regarding key community attributes and health indicators.
- Community Themes and Strengths: Qualitative data reflecting the opinions related to the most pressing health needs in the community.
- Local Public Health System Performance Assessment: An evaluation of the collective performance of the many entities within the local public health system.
- Forces of Change: An overview of the key trends, events or factors that currently or could
potentially impact the quality of health or health care delivery.
Each county can choose which kind of IPLAN it does. But if they choose to utilize MAPP, the County Health Department still has to include all the items listed in the APEX-PH model.
Therefore, the five questions which appear under the “APHEX” explanation on page 1. If your county uses MAPP, you’ll have to explain where the APHEX-PH criteria basically show up!
PHHE 469 Online page 3 IPLAN evaluation
Directions for the 8-10 page Paper:
Mechanics of the paper:
- Each Person is to organize an 8-10 page paper (you may exceed 10 pages, but need at least 8).
- Each page should be double-spaced
- 12-point font ONLY; Times New Roman Font ONLY.
- 1 inch margins all around—top, sides, and bottom of each page.
- Number each page sequentially, upper right-hand corner of page, after page 1.
- Your finished paper needs to include a title page with each section listed.
- Each page is one-sided.
- A special link will appear on your course menu to allow you to turn in your paper beginning Week 10, if you want to finish your paper early. The last time you can turn your paper in is Tuesday November 27 (Week 14) at 11:59 pm. No papers
will be accepted after that time and date.
- No papers will be accepted via email or regular mail.
Content of the Paper:
- Each paper will consist of 5 parts, corresponding to the five criteria detailed above.
- Each section will include an assessment of how your County interpreted the state mandate,
by examining the actual elements of each section of their IPLAN.
- Start each section of your paper with a definition of what it is you want to discuss; e.g.
“organizational capacity”, “community health needs assessment”, other criteria (formal
and informal).
- Provide at least two examples of whether or not your individual IPLAN section (1-5)
conforms to State of Illinois expectations. How do you know it conforms/does not conform?
- For each of the five criteria for an IPLAN (three formal, two “informal”), compare
that element with the corresponding part of Kettner’s “Logic Model”. How does it reflect
Kettner’s Logic analysis?
- Compare your County’s IPLAN to how DeKalb County covered the same “Element”.
- Please do not exceed two pages for each of the five criteria.
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