Abstract
I have evaluated the 5-year development of the Maternal and Children Health (MCH) promotion plan of municipality by quantitative analysis with comparison between the first MCH promotion plan in 1996 and the second MCH promotion plan revised in 2091 and 2002, in order to clarify problems, regarding a draw-up of the promotional plans, that need to be improved. The research ranged over 2873 municipalities for the first plan and 848 municipalities that turned in the second plan to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the evaluation items were based on the concept of Health Promotion. By comparing the results of analysis for those two plans of the municipalities that revised it, the improvement was shown in almost all evaluation items, especially in the following factors. "mention of evaluation", "setting of the numerical goal for outcome", "setting of annual goal", "management of progress", "classification of tasks corresponding to the goal", and so on. Also, it was these municipalities that stated a necessity to include a public health center in the planning committee, current problems, management of progress, numerical goal of activities, and an actual survey for development of the plan, in the first MCH plan. It is evident that the methodology of designing the plan, the evaluation, and the revision based on the evaluation are significant and necessary for development of activities for public health with its plan.
