as a public health administrator you might use the informati

as a public health administrator, you might use the information obtained in the SWOT analysis in strategic planning, decision making, and resource allocation

Solution

SWOT Analysis is helpful in identifying strengths , weaknesses , opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses are internal factors. Opportunities and Threats are the external factors.

There could be projects to make use of opportunities at hand or projects to eliminated or reduce the effect of threats.

Opportunity:

>>Few states or areas might have less hospitals and they might not be able to cater to entire population in that area. There is an opportunity here for public health improvement. Based on this a strategy can be planned. The strategy could be building new hospitals or expanding the existing ones. Bases on various parameters like costs. availability of land ,etc. decision making has to be done regarding which alternative to choose. One decision is made, resources required for the project have to be evaluated and then allocated.

Similarly, from threats too we might get project ideas.

Strengths and weaknesses awareness helps one in completing the projects successfully. Suppose your weakness is you don\'t have a strong IT team. You might outsource it to other companies.