DL Students Assignments 1st,2nd,3rd Semesters Sep 2011

Organizational Management

1. List the Vertical Public Health Programs in Pakistan. Discuss how the pharmaceutical sector in Pakistan manages the market by Managment by Objectives

2. In a tabular form discuss the differences between Theory X and theory Y and within the managerial framework of the Organization you are working, Whether you will apply Theory X or Theory Y. Your answer should be supported by valid arguments

3. Discuss in detail Abrham Maslow's Theory of Heirarchy of Needs

4. What is a Team. Discuss in detail the various stages of Life Cycle of a Team. If you are given the task of making a Team How would you proceed to do this task.

5. what is organizational conflict. Discuss in detail Pondy's stages of Conflict within an Organization

6. discuss the details of decision making in Govt Health Department KPK

7. What is meant by Delegation. Discuss contemporary issues with Delegation

8. As a Health Manager how would you arrange a Press Conference about a food poisoning break out in the city

9. write a "Press Release" about any Public Health event you are familiar with

10. In a diagramatic form (time line), show how management has evolved through various civilizations over centuries


Health Economics and Marketing

1. Define Economics. With 3 examples illustrate what is Allocative Efficiency

2. It is believed that EQUITY is the most difficult aspect of Health Economics to define. Do you agree or disagree. Illustrate your answer with 2 examples from your own Country’s Health Sector

3. What is meant by DALY's and how this term originated. How is it calculated and what is the importance of this indicator for Health Programs

4. What is meant by oppurtunity Cost. Illustrate the concept of Oppurtunity Cost with help of a Production Possibilit Frontier

5. define Market, Supply and Demand. In a diagramatic and narrative form, explain how the demand and supply curves behave when prices rise and fall in Nutritional Products

6. Define Technical Efficiency and illustrate it with 2-3 examples from the Health Sector

7. Define Fixed Costs, Variable Costs, Marginal Costs and Total Costs. With a help of a diagram show the relation between all these different types of costs

8. What is Marketing. Discuss in detail how the Marketing Mix can help you market your Health services in a given community

9. What is Cost effectiveness Analysis and in what conditions is it used. How can CEA help us in setting up our health priorities in the country

10. Do you agree that the rich should pay for the health of the poor. How. Discuss the mechanisms and its pros and cons.

Health Care Planning


1. What is Planning. How will you conduct a Situational Analysis relating to Maternal and Neonatal Child Health and what type of information would you collect

2. Draw a Priority Matrix and fill it with some common public health problems in Pakistan and rank them on that matrix

3. Draw a Decision Analysis Tree and illustrate it with some hypothetical examples

4. Draw a Gantt Chart of Activities which you normally carry out in your office

5. Discuss how would you make a plan for evaluation of health services provided by an NGO through a BHU in a rural area

6. what is process evaluation and what is its importance. Discuss the processes of your own department where you are currently working

7. Discuss how would you implement a program related to giving Health education about Breast feeding to a community of a population of 100,000 with help of 100 LHW's

8. Discuss some of the main problematic issues with Health Planning in Pakistan