The questions are designed for students to consider the development of an Environmental Scan and...

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The questions are designed for students to consider the development of an Environmental Scan and what information needs to be researched in order to compile the Environmental Scan.

This assignment needs to confirm that students have undertaken individual research and considered each of the six questions set out in Section 2.4.2.

1. What is the purpose of an Environmental Scan for a population-based health plan?

2. What is the external environment and what is the internal environment for the Local Health District you are

studying?

3. What planning has the Local Health District undertaken to date which is relevant to the development of the

Environmental Scan?

4. What planning have other relevant health authorities including the NSW Ministry of Health undertaken to date

which is relevant to the development of the Environmental Scan?

5. What data is relevant to the preparation of Sections 4,5,6 and 7?

6. The LHD will also be located in one or more Primary Health Networks (PHNs) which conduct a Needs Assessment for their network. The PHNs include General Practitioner (GP) practices so that their main focus is primary health care. What relevant data and findings do their Needs Assessment present which is relevant to the Environmental Scan?

100 words will be required per question.As there are six questions this results in atotal of600words.

Vignesh · Accepted Answer

1.
The purpose of environment scan is to provide information that has high possibility to affect the health.  It helps to manage the chronic illness patients with care and in an effective manner. Environmental scan provides population and their determinants with improved health activities that help to aid the existing measurements used by the clinical care and public health systems of the government. Environmental health scan maintains healthy living and healthy communities, family and maternal health, communicable disease and injury prevention and manages public health. The health of the children is improved through enhanced educational partnership. Collaboration with local governments to create health-promoting environments were achieved by the environmental scan.
2.
The determinants of environmental scan can be classified into internal and external factors. The external environment identifies external trends, events that may affect or support the decision of the health department. External analysis of local health department comprises five areas such as economic,    technological, government, socio-cultural and future.
The internal environment creates an overview of health department strategy .it provides internal strengths and weakness of local health department, environmental opportunities and theatre facing the local health department. The powerful tool used for the development of the local health department is swot, which considers internal capabilities and key resources in order to shape strategies. Health care services in the internal environment are local health service plan, risk management plan,

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