Question

Health Issue

Around 25% of the adult population in Saudi Arabia are diabetics which is around 5 million people. One of the biggest causes of so many cases of diabetes is obesity, 40 percent of the population are obese. Unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise lead to diabetes and this can cause further complications with people’s health. Around 50 percent of dialysis patients were diabetics, and the same ratio was found in patients with cardiovascular problems.

Saudi Arabia ranks the second highest in the Middle East for the number of diabetics in their country and seventh in the world rate for diabetes.

With that being said, let us assume that the Ministry of Health developed several public health programs to reduce the diabetes rate in Saudi Arabia. The public health programs developed by the Ministry of Health are:

1. Weight-management program: designed to reduce the obesity rate in the Saudi Society.
2. Eat healthy & be healthy program: designed to increase healthy diet consumption and reduce the unhealthy eating habits.
3. Exercise and health education program: designed to make community members engage in physical activities and stay active.

Now assume you work for evaluation agency that provides evaluation services for all kinds of public health programs. The Ministry of health asked your agency to evaluate their programs. Your agency creates evaluation team specifically to evaluate all the above-mentioned programs. The team leader asks you to choose one of the programs to develop evaluation framework. The framework is based on the steps mentioned below. You must answer each question thoroughly. Use the knowledge and skills you learned from the course to help you answer the questions. You may use responsible assumptions to complete this assignment.

After reading, please answer each questions below as required:

1. Stakeholders Engagement and evaluation program description
   1. What is the name of the program you choose? Identify specific people in the program who might be involved in the evaluation.

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2. Identify specific groups, people, or organization who are served or affected by your program.

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3. What problem does your program address? What are the projected outcomes?

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4. What are the factors or issues that might affect your evaluation program?

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2. Evaluation design and gathering credible evidence
   1. What is the purpose of your program evaluation? Choose and describe one of the following:
      1. Improvement,
      2. Accountability,
      3. Knowledge.

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2. Identify the specific users of your evaluation findings (such as: program managers, funding agencies, health officials). How do you think they will use that findings?

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3. What data will you need to gather to measure the outcomes and activities of your program? How will you collect the data you need?

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4. What resources will you need to implement your evaluation? Resources may include people, skills, technology, money, etc.

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5. List two types of data you will collect in your program. How you are going to make sure the data you collected is credible and accurate?

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Answer 1

Solution

Stakeholders Engagement and evaluation program description

Question 1

I shall choose the weight-management program in Saudi Arabia that is focussed on the reducing the obesity rate in the country.

The weight management program includes many people including all the medical professionals including physician, nurse, paramedical staffs, dietician, pathological personnel etc apart from the ground level personnel those who collect all the database from the society, biostatistician for collecting and interpreting all the database.

Question 2

This program typically helps a particular group of society or area in which the program is taking place. Moreover the program will benefit the population starting from the neonates, children and adult group of populations in the society particularly those are having issues related to weight. Further proper advice has to be provided for the management of overweight.

Question 3

As the obesity is increasing very drastically owing to the bad food habit in Saudia Arabia, this type of program typically focused on the management of weight in different group of population. Further demonstration of the healthy food habits, management of overweight by reducing or change in the diet plan and reconstruction of the diet chart with healthy food items, encouraging in physical activity, routine exercise, monitoring of the progress of the health or reduction in the weight will be thoroughly monitor in the weight management program.

If all the above mentioned points are successfully monitor, the outcome of the project will be successful in terms of the management of the weight related issues in different group of populations in Saudi Arabia.

Question 4

There are several factors associated with the weight management program that affects the evaluation program. The first and foremost important factor includes understanding capability of the patient and the sufficient knowledge of the program coordinators. Apart from that maintain the schedule of the food intake, choice of foods; changes in habit, exercise habit have great importance in the evaluation of the weight management program.