PUBH 6641 Week 8 Resource Plan Example

Described Before It Is Priced: A Resource Plan Listing Staff Time, a Borrowed Analyzer, Laboratory Confirmation, Translated Materials and Replacement Products for an Invented County's Cream-Testing Effort, With Every Unsecured Item Flagged

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Walden University

PUBH 6641: Applied Project in Public Health

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Month Day, Year

Described Before It Is Priced: A Resource Plan Listing Staff Time, a Borrowed Analyzer, Laboratory Confirmation, Translated Materials and Replacement Products for an Invented County's Cream-Testing Effort, With Every Unsecured Item Flagged

Purpose

This plan lists everything the Marlow County cream-testing effort, an invented program, needs, by kind and by source. It does not attempt a full budget, since several items depend on decisions not yet made. Instead, it marks each resource as secured, promised or unsecured, so that the project's risks are visible and the department knows exactly what still has to be found.

Resources

Table 1

Resources by Kind, Source and Status

Note. Status as of the plan date; the county, partners and arrangements are composite.

The Unsecured Items

Three items are unsecured, and each carries a different risk.

Confirmatory testing: the state laboratory will confirm up to 20 positive creams, meaning creams above the federal trace limit of 1 part per million (21 C.F.R. § 700.13), at no cost. If local contamination rates resemble those in international testing, in which roughly one product in seventeen held extreme mercury levels (Hamann et al., 2014), 300 screened creams could produce around 18 high positives, plus others between 1 and 1,000 parts per million. More than 20 positives would need either funding or a decision to confirm only the highest results.

Translation into Tagalog and Yoruba: without these, women from two of the four main communities would receive materials in English only. The project will ask the Filipino and Nigerian church groups whether volunteer translators are available and will seek a small grant if not.

Replacement moisturizers: the logic model assumes women are more likely to stop using a contaminated cream if offered a replacement. No source has been identified. The project will ask the community health center's pharmacy and local stores, other than those selling the tested products, for donations.

Resources Deliberately Not Requested

The plan does not request a dedicated analyzer, which would cost far more than the project could justify for one year, or paid advertising, since trusted community channels are expected to reach more women than radio or print. It also does not request clinical services; women with positive screens are referred to existing providers. Keeping requests to what the project strictly needs makes it easier for partners to say yes and for the health officer to approve the plan.

Partner Contributions

Partners contribute space, trust and time. These contributions are not priced here, but they are essential: the community associations' review of materials is what makes the project acceptable, and the community health center's willingness to accept referrals gives women with positive screens somewhere to go.

What Happens If Items Stay Unsecured

If replacement products are never secured, the project proceeds, and the follow-up evaluation will compare stopping rates with expectations. If confirmation funding is not found, the project will confirm the 20 highest results and report the rest as screening results only, clearly labeled. If translations are incomplete, health workers will explain results orally with help from community volunteers. Severe poisoning has followed long-term use of contaminated creams (Mudan et al., 2019), so the project will not delay screening while waiting for every item; it will proceed with what is secured and state openly what is missing.

References

Hamann, C. R., Boonchai, W., Wen, L., Sakanashi, E. N., Chu, C.-Y., Hamann, K., Hamann, C. P., Sinniah, K., & Hamann, D. (2014). Spectrometric analysis of mercury content in 549 skin-lightening products: Is mercury toxicity a hidden global health hazard? Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 70(2), 281-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2013.09.050

Mudan, A., Copan, L., Wang, R., Pugh, A., Lebin, J., Barreau, T., Jones, R. L., Ghosal, S., Lee, M., Albertson, T., Jarrett, J. M., Lee, J., Betting, D., Ward, C. D., De Leon Salazar, A., Smollin, C. G., & Blanc, P. D. (2019). Notes from the field: Methylmercury toxicity from a skin lightening cream obtained from Mexico, California, 2019. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 68(50), 1166-1167. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6850a4

Use of Mercury Compounds in Cosmetics, 21 C.F.R. § 700.13 (2024).