Health Service Delivery Plan

Introduction
Health service plan is a balancing of the health and health care needs of a community. This needs are assessed with resource availability such as human resources by indices of mortality, morbidity and disability (Health service planning,2010). Planning is a completely organized process in which resources are allocated effectively to meet the specific goals (Thomas, 2003). The significant purpose of the health service planning is to strengthen health service delivery and/or system performance to totally meet the health needs of a population. It is the process of bringing together the delivery of existing health services to meet the changing patterns of need and use of services. The major aim of the process is to formulate the

Although the budgetary setting is limited, there are always increasing pressures and demands on the public health system (Sten, John, Rick & Lyne, 2006). Hospitalisation rates are increasing marginally due to many health conditions, and it is expected that this rate is repeatedly increase over the next 20 years. Even though there are number of causes such as wide incidence of chronic disease, ageing of the population is considered to be major issue for the future health system pressure (Queensland Government, 2010). Hence, many developing countries currently struggle to meet the needs and care of the predicted ageing population (Sciegaj & Behr, 2010). In this context, it is essential that services are well planned, with the capacity to react properly to advancing changes in order to meet community needs. There are two methods of health service planning either population based or Institution based planning to meet the needs of the people. Hence, this essay is an attempt to discuss and critic these methods of

Successful population health planning requires community, inter-sectoral and full-of-government engagement, joint effort and activity to address the expansive scope of determinants that shape health and wellbeing (Victorian Healthcare Association, 2012). Population-based planning gives background and scope to the goal of clinical combination. It also is a changing procedure for organizations and projects that dedicated to a hospital-centric care system, as well as it is a source of communication that can maintain relationship among buyers, payers, providers, and community groups. A population health approach addresses the whole scope of individual and aggregate variables that focus health. Population health strategies are intended to influence the entire groups or populations of people. The overarching goals of a population health approach are to retain and progress the health status of the whole population and to decrease disparities in health status between population groups (Strategic Policy Directorate,