Nutrition Program Planning Group of education and related activities designed to change public eating habits in ways that promote health and treat disease

Nutrition Program Planning Particularly by helping decrease the incidence and severity of chronic disease

Nutrition Program Planning Five general steps –Needs assessment –Determine priorities, goals, objectives –Develop nutrition plan –Implement program –Monitor & evaluate program

Planning Ask the community what are their priorities? –Community Assessment –See Table 12.1 in Windsor –Empowerment –Participation & relevance –Issue selection

Planning Select priorities, goals, & objectives –need community input –goals more general –objectives measurable

Planning Develop the nutrition plan Implement the intervention Monitor & evaluate the intervention

What is the relation between program development and evaluation?

Aides to Planning Forms –goals and objectives –sponsoring agency –contact person –needs –target audience

Aides to Planning Forms –key strategies –key dates –estimated costs –potential problems –evaluation methods

Aides to Planning Forms –for each objective and task the person responsible and due dates

Aides to Planning PERT chart –outlines a comprehensive project –estimates time-frames if time on solid lines –very complex

Aides to Planning Gantt chart –includes proportionate, chronologically scaled time frames –all tasks in the total project –helps in management

PRECEDE/PROCEED Was called the PATCH Planned Approach to Community Health Daniel & Green article 1995

Overview of Evaluation

Formative Evaluation Focus is on improvement To provide feedback To assist in the development of an “object” How best to develop the program/material

Process Evaluation Quality assurance Monitoring the program How could we get things done better? What activities did we do?

Process Evaluation Who did them? When, how often, and for how long did we do them? Whom and how many did we reach with our program?

Summative Evaluation Impact and outcomes Focus on merit and value More political

End Any questions about planning?