Background
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United State Agency that was designed to protect public health and safety by providing information with an aim of enhancing health decisions. The World War II contributed to the foundation of the Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) in 1942. The program promotes health through partnering with other departments of health in US, other African both public and private organizations, businesses, education programs and individuals (Martin, 2009). It is concerned with designing and applying disease prevention measures and control programs to various regions. CDC does not have a specific target but for this case, Tanzanian can be considered as their targeted country. It fast dealt with infectious diseases and it later expanded to environmental health, occupational safety. It also deals with the promotion of health and education activities designed to improve health in Tanzania (Mubyazi et al., 2010).
Objectives
Public health professionals strive to improve health through the program and this has been its main objective. The public health individuals have devoted their will and action to evaluate its performance. All principles have been integrated into the CDC program framework and this has stimulated innovation (Mubyazi et al., 2010) towards improving outcome. “An efficient and timely detection improves the capacity of CDC to translate findings into practice,” (Martin, 2009, p. 04). The program has guiding standards and steps that do resolve the CDC basic approach to program. “The program also emphasizes on continuity and commitment for the improvement of overall community health” (Martin, 2009) and this has been the marking point.
Data Collection Method(s) and inputs
Program evaluation can be defined as the systematic application of scientific methods in assessing the performance of a program. Program on the other hand can be defined as a plan or series of steps that are carried out or objectives to be achieved. It is imperative to evaluate any given program to determine its efficiency (Martin, 2009). The paper evaluates Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC).
The evaluation involved numerous steps. Both secondary and primary data collection and analysis methods were employed. The primary entailed interview and questionnaires while the secondary entailed the analysis of the past records. In evaluation, data collection was done through interview and questionnaires (inputs). In-depth interviews were done on officers concerned in 2010 and this involved having a direct conversation with employees, employers and customers. The interviews were done by the national malaria control officers. The clients were interviewed on satisfactions and services they were offered. Questionnaires on the other hand were sent to various departments. Qualitative content approach was used to analyze the data collected. The objective involved describing the Intermittent Prevention Treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTP) prospects, challenges, achievements and available opportunity for its implementation in Tanzania. The management was interviewed on the last performance of the program and factors affecting its performance. In performance assessment, past records were analyzed and short notes written. The trends in performance and customer turn up were also recorded.
Outcomes
The results according to the National Antenatal Care (ANC) records shown an average national attendance and this justify the possibility that the program will achieve its target for Intermittent Prevention Treatment for malaria (Mubyazi et al, 2010). We can therefore conclude that Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) is a beneficial program to the community. Most of the customer feedbacks were positive and this has shown the program’s potentiality of satisfying its clients. Over the past, a steady growth of the number of customers was noted. Most people had started preferring the program.
References
Martin, E. J. (2009). Program Evaluation: The Guide to Evaluating Programs. New York. New York University Press.
Mubyazi et al. (2008). Prospects, achievements, challenges and opportunities for scaling-up malaria chemoprevention in pregnancy. New York. Engage Publishers.