Health Planning Course

The main aim of health planning is to facilitate progress in public health. The planner's task is to judiciously allocate all the resources that can be used for this purpose. It consists of a series of decisions involving choices. Health planning has particular advantages for developing countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but it also poses a number of problems in its design and implementation. For example, given the limited resources in these countries, they are allocated only to the most pressing social and medical needs and activities. The raison d' tre of health planning is to attempt to establish these priorities, and then to allocate financial and human resources to carefully designed programs based on these priorities.