Strategic Planning and SWOT Analysis
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC has a mission protecting the health of all Americans at all times. Notably, the jurisdictions of their actions are the protections of American both within and outside America. The organization focuses on preventions and cure of the chronic disease that compromise the health of the Americans (Xu et al. 2016). The entry of ZIKA virus into the world has prompt many health organization into intensive research to identify the cause cure and the preventions. CDC is on the health stallholders that were in the lead attempting to provide a solution to the problem. The following is a table of the SWOT analysis for the problem-solving process.
Strengths
Availability of resource to finance the project
CDC has skilled health professional
Strong and able leadership
Clear goals of the COP
Weakness
Financial constraint to finance inventions of new drug
Insufficient resources regarding the ZIKA virus
Lack of effective coordination to address the large number of health practitioners in Opportunities
Experience health professionals
Availability of relevant equipment
Availability of physical facilities that to address the problem
Support from other health organization faced by the similar challenge
Threats
Emergence of other diseases
Running of the ordinary roles of the organization given that ZIKA virus is an added responsibility
Rationale for the selection of the items in the SWOT analysis
All projects become successful with the existence of enough resources to fund them. For this reason, the choice of finance in the opportunities section is relevant as one of the strengths of the organization (Holtgrave & Greenwald2016). Notably, when the problem that an organization is seeking to address is in the form of an epidemic affecting many people, the resources...
Focusing on the case of the ZIKA virus that is threatening the life of many expectant women, there is a need for resources at the disposal of the organization. Additionally, other important elements under the opportunities are labor force, sound leadership and the clear goals in the organization. The chosen items in the section for the opportunity are crucial because their absence implies that the organization will not achieve the goals with ease.
Section II
Ideally, as a public health Administrator, the information in the SWOT analysis is helpful in making the strategic plan. For example, the identification of the available resources to finance the community-based project is critical in the planning process. Notably, strategic planning is often a route map helpful in the attainment of the goals. It one of the ways that help in the identification of the problem, resources needed and the projection of the possible threats. Notably, the weaknesses identified during the SWOT analysis are important to the planners because they help them invent ways to reduce the negative implications of the weakness.
Strategic planning requires the making of the decision on the issues to be considered in the plan and those that are not important hence no need for their inclusion. Ideally, the strengths of the organization are important because it will help the administrators to find ways to minimize the problems (Heinrich, 2014). Threats, on the other hand, are important when drafting a plan because the organization will seek to address the threats with proper mitigation measures in the process. SWOT analysis is important for most administrators because the plan is not effective without the consideration of the analysis. Ideally, the planning involves the allocation of the resource to the various activities that the plan seeks to address. Notably, most planners seek the information required in the inclusion process from the SWOT analysis. For example, when the threats facing the project are…
