Health Planning

AHPA encourages and facilitates community oriented health services planning. This necessarily entails supporting a wide range of planning activities in many venues and settings. The key AHPA concern is that planning of all varieties, and in all venues and settings, incorporate and reflect a discernible community perspective.

Much productive health services planning necessarily takes place in private organizations and settings. Consequently, AHPA endorses and supports collaborative planning efforts between and among public and private and public entities. Publicly supported planning endeavors often can provide valuable assistance to voluntary private health service planning efforts, particularly in ensuring that they consider, and where possible take into account, community concerns, interests and perspectives that may not be identified if by a more scan or assessment of the institutional or organizational environment.

Data, information, and analysis presented here is intended to reflect and amplify this view.  We encourage your comments and contributions.