Step 6: Review the Plan
Worksheet 6.2: Review your plan using a Population Health Approach lens
Question Yes/No Notes and potential actions
1 FOCUS ON HEALTH (Key Element 1): Did you carefully analyze health Yes
inequities and set priorities using good data and explicit criteria?
(Worksheets 1.1 and 2.3)
2 FOCUS ON HEALTH (Key Element 1): Did you assess environments, No
conditions and circumstances related to your situation? (Worksheet
2.3)
3 DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (Key Element 2) Did you consider how Yes
the determinants of health, and their interactions, link to your situation
and possible solutions? (Worksheet 2.3)
4 BASE DECISIONS ON EVIDENCE (Key Element 3): Did you use No
explicit criteria for what to include as acceptable evidence? (Worksheet
1.2 question 7)
5 BASE DECISIONS ON EVIDENCE (Key Element 3): Did you use a Yes
range of the best evidence available (some of which may have been
collected/created by you) to inform your planning decisions?
(Worksheet 2.1)
6 BASE DECISIONS ON EVIDENCE (Key Element 3): Did you identify No
and assess effective activities? (Worksheets 2.4 and 4.2)
7 UPSTREAM INVESTMENTS (Key Element 4): Does your plan include Yes
short, medium and long-term activities? (Worksheets 4.1 and 4.2)
8 UPSTREAM INVESTMENTS (Key Element 4): Does your plan include No
roles (and possibly resources) from multiple sectors, not simply health
sector alone? (Worksheets 1.2 , 1.3, and 4.3).
9 MULTIPLE INTERVENTIONS AND STRATEGIES (Key Element 5): Integrate common risk factors (e.g. poor nutrition, low physical activity,
Does your plan include a mix of activities and strategies (Worksheets etc.) across multiple health outcomes.
4.1 and 4.2) that will:
Deal with multiple points in the intended population’s lifespan.
Work within multiple settings, such as the home, school, workplace and
community.
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Question Yes/No Notes and potential actions
10 MULTIPLE INTERVENTIONS AND STRATEGIES (Key Element 5): education
Does your implementation plan make use of a variety of resources and
supports including: (Worksheets 1.3 and 4.3) communications
leadership and promotion
political support
11 COLLABORATION (Key Element 6): Have you produced a document Yes
outlining values, purpose, objectives, expectations and obligations to
create shared leadership, accountability and rewards among partners?
(Worksheets 1.2 and 1.4)
12 COLLABORATION (Key Element 6): Has your planning process No
created commitment such that participants champion the program and
have created political and public support for it? (Worksheets 1.2 and
1.4)
13 PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT (Key element 7): Does your plan identify an Yes
appropriate level of public involvement, and ways and means to
capture public interest and involvement? (Worksheet 1.2)
14 DEMONSTRATE ACCOUNTABILITY (Key Element 8): Does your plan Yes
identify baseline measures and targets, with practical indicators for
both? (Worksheets 5.1 and 5.2)
15 DEMONSTRATE ACCOUNTABILITY (Key Element 8): Does your Yes
planning process include a results-based evaluation/accountability
framework, including a commitment to disseminate findings?
(Worksheets 5.1 and 5.2)
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