Challenges of Measuring the Impact of Strategic Planning on Environmental Health Management in Palestine رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This study aims to identifying the challenges facing the Palestinian environmental health sector in adopting and implementing strategic planning, and its impact on the management of the environmental health in Palestine; through studying, analyzing the strategic plans and policies that are adopted by the related ministries and institutions, studying the reality of the institutions structure, and the role in carrying out the responsibilities, in order to recognize the obstacles encountered in the implementation process. So as to reach the best strategy, I studied the reality of the situation in Palestine, and the benefits gained from the past experience from other countries in this field. To achieve this goal, the researcher used a quantitative approach by designing a survey questionnaire as a means of collecting the necessary data and surveying the sample of the study. (55) Questionnaires were distributed to the employees of the Palestinian ministers, institutions and municipalities, (52) questionnaires were retrieved representing (95%) response. The researcher used windows software program (SPDSS version 20) to analyze data, and the results of the study showed that there is a positive and significant impact of strategic planning as an independent variable on all the dependent variables of the study (managing the five environmental health departments: Food Safety and Control, the Discharge of Solid and Liquid Waste, Pest and Rodent Control, Safety of Drinking Water, the Crafts and Industries Control).. The study concludes a range of results mainly: despite that there is high positive degree of perceptions of the importance of employing strategic planning on the environment health management in Palestine, but the plan was not quite up to the national level, it need more development in the strategic planning and policies, to dell with some mainly iv challenges like financial issue, poor planning in the organizations, Israeli occupation practices, and lack of clarity of powers which play negative impact of environmental health management. The study provided the policy maker with a set of recommendations: to upgrade the national planning to include all the environmental health categories and integrate its developmental needs in a sustainable framework of comprehensive planning cross all sectors, and to concentrate on developing financial and critical polices through forming a supreme council of environmental health to organize the management of environmental health sector, to help the future generation contribute to achieving the nations sustainable development.