Week $5$ Discussion: Budgets and Best$-$Practices

There is$$continued emphasis on public health systems' efficacy, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. This has given rise to the continued search into best practices in important key areas of management, governance, leadership, and community collaborative efforts. This search seeks to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of delivery of public health services. Best practices that focus on negotiating and developing a budget of necessary resources are critical for health care leaders, because these best practices help to ensure the necessary resources are available for work to get completed.

Imagine you are being asked to develop a budget for a specific service line or project at your organization. In your initial post, address the following:

How would you investigate$$human and financial resources before making decisions on a budget?

What questions might you want answered before you negotiate a budget for the upcoming year?What information will you review or whom might you talk to regarding the budget line items?

How would you leverage best practices to help inform your budget development?

Support your answers by citing references from your text and assigned articles or from scholarly literature, and share relevant insights from your professional practice.

Use correct APA formatting for all references and in$-$text citations.