Which of the 10 options for setting targets would be best suited to developing targets for the other four health problems in Layetteville and Bowe County? Provide some rationale for your choice.

ASSESS, PLAN, & Evaluation

1.Imagine that you have been asked to explain to your colleagues in 10 minutes how to set targets for program objectives. Develop an outline of the steps involved.

2. Which of the 10 options for setting targets would be best suited to developing targets for the other four health problems in Layetteville and Bowe County? Provide some rationale for your choice.

Try using your choice of target setting based on the following data: the adult immunization rate is 30%, with 25 hospitalizations per 1,000 adults for influenza-related pneumonia; for children younger than 1 year old, the incidence of maltreatment is 9.4 per 1,000 children (University of California at Berkeley Center for Social Services Research, http://cssr.berkeley.edu /ucb_childwelfare/RefRates.aspx); 1.2 adolescents are discharged with a diagnosisnof gunshot wounds for every 1,000 hospital admissions; the neural tube defects rate is 18 per 100,000 (National Center for Health Statistics); and new diagnosis of diabetes is 7.5 per 1,000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).