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PUBH 612
Health Program Planning and Evaluation
Term | Definition |
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Program | A structured effort to provide a specific set of services or interventions |
Project | time-limited or experimental effort to provide a specific set of services or interventions through an organizational structure |
Service | interaction between provider and client, an intangibility aspect to what is provided, and a nonpermanence or transitory nature to what is provided. |
Health program | a totality of an organized structure designed for the provision of a fairly discrete health-focused intervention, where that intervention is designed for a specific target audience. |
Health Services | organizational structures through which providers interact with clients or patients to meet the needs or address the health problems of the clients or patients |
Difference between a health program and health services | A health program tends to provide educational services, have a prevention focus, and deliver services that are aggregate or population-focused. In contrast, health services exist exclusively as direct services |