The program to be evaluated is the Child vaccination program (Project L.O.V.E) based in Ohio Columbia. The children vaccination project deals with promoting public health among the residents of Columbia and specifically ensuring that the children who are less than two years old are brought up healthily. Thus, the evaluation will be carried out sequentially regarding the project’s objectives. The evaluation will also embark on the target group especially the children. The reason for the project targeting children is because society’s long-term health status is determined by the present care given to the children. The mission of the children’s vaccination program in Columbia is intended to address all the health problems affecting the whole society thus blanketing all the age groups.
The program being evaluated has various objectives and they intend to achieve them by identifying the health threats and precedence in the target groups. The children have health challenges that are different from those of adults. Therefore, the program intends to establish each of the requirements in order to provide appropriate care and protection to both groups. Additionally, it intends to work hand in hand with people and stakeholders in the communities in Columbia. The local authorities and policy developers are going to help the program reach the affected target groups. The residents will also help provide the necessary information to cover the health gaps and difficulties experienced in the Ohio community.
Moreover, the Columbia public health program intends to reach out to the residents of the area and educate them on good living. it will be implemented through empowerment programs and health seminars for women in Ohio to show commitment to all clients. The intention of the health program is not only to provide services to ordinary people but also to reach out to the affected ones. The target was to treat at least 200 people in the Ohio communities within a period of one month. This is going to be used as exhibit to the stakeholders to offer more support to the program. Consequently, the targeted people will receive capacity-building teachings to acquire knowledge on how to remain healthy. To achieve this, various resources will be mobilized to offer continuous support to ensure quality health standards.
The implementation of these objectives will be done in various stages. First, the residents are going to be taught on reducing their intake of foods that could be harmless to their health. An example of a poor condition that results from food consumption is obesity and overweight. The couples among the stakeholders will be educated concerning the appropriate family planning and postnatal care to reduce the infant death rate. The implementation of vaccines will be done to reduce the spread of infectious diseases among children. Thus, all appropriate vaccines will be administered to children aged between one and two years. Moreover, various hospitals and medical centers shall be improved and equipped with advanced equipment thus reducing the distances to major towns and getting access to the medical services from the nearby health care centers. The project would also prioritize the implementation of departmental restructuring to decentralize the health operation in Ohio. The various implementation strategies will include all the stakeholders in the community.
The various stakeholder’s participation includes medical practitioners creating awareness to the residents, the parents teaching their children on good health standards, and other experts taking part in the construction and management of health centers. The program will reinforce healthy behaviors by ensuring all food chains are stocked with balanced nutrition proportions of foods. Follow-up would be initiated to all the homesteads once every month to check on the well-being of the family members. This will be done for at least one year to ensure all people learn and uphold the importance of healthy behaviors.
The Columbia Ohio logic model is developed to focus on the important health matters that affect the clients. Stakeholders also target to achieve common applications on the acquisition of drugs and health care. The targeted clients for this logic model are the small children who suffer most the childhood diseases. Specific strategies for the logic model in the L.O.V.E project target to support continuous moderated health improvement for the affected children. The model strategy also promotes continued communication between the clients and the health professionals. In the long run, various families in the Ohio neighborhood are to benefit from the plan and infant mortality rates are to be reduced. The ultimate achievement for the project organization is to increase professional accountability. Consequently, accountability by the organization is intended to provide confidence to the clients that they are cared for.
