Improving Health Care Leadership in the COVID-19 Era & Global
Improving Health Care Leadership in the COVID-19 Era & Global
Folarin Kehinde David | 2021
Abstract
The Health Care Industry globally is at a crossroads. There are pressing public health issues locally, nationally, and globally. Healthcare leadership face significant challenges leading their organizations through increased consumers demands, decreased funding, regulatory intervention, global health crisis and professional staff shortages. There is a need to understand the type of leadership that exists and that which would be most effective in addressing these challenges.
The dissertation addresses the concept of providing effective, efficient, quality healthcare and health-promoting leadership to all of the citizens of the Sub-Saharan Africa and USA. The dissertation looked into hospitals which renders both specialized and non-specialized services to thousands of patients in the countries, these has been on the decline for the last twenty years. The hospitals are inundated with various problems that are impacting negatively on healthcare service delivery, which include poor leadership; no stable management; shortage of critical staff such as clinicians, nurses and managers; outdated medical equipment’s; shortage of prescribed drugs; suspension of key staff members; financial mismanagement; fraud; poor infrastructure; and shortage of basic stock items such as stationery, linen, etc.
Health Care Leadership has been defined as influence that moves individuals, communities, organizations, and systems toward achieving goals that will result in better health and well-being. But what type of leadership is required in public health to address the decline in healthcare system, what are the health-promoting leadership qualities needed? How is it described? How is that leadership developed and supported?
To begin to answer these questions and contribute to the knowledge and science of leadership in public health care, an extensive scoping review of the various literature pertinent to leadership was undertaken in order to enable a deeper level of understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of leadership in relation to public healthcare service delivery.
The dissertation concludes with a discussion of the findings and a set of considerations and recommendations for practice, theory, policy, education, and research. These considerations and recommendations are intended to provide a foundation for the development and support of public health leaders and leadership to address the determinants of health and advance health -promoting leadership, which is the culture for health promoting workplaces and values, to inspire and motivate employee participation in such a development. Which can also be viewed as a critical part of organizational capacity for health promotion, including managerial knowledge and skills as well as organizational policies and structures that support a health promoting workplace.
The success of these interventions aiming at developing a health-promoting leadership depends on how well they are integrated into an organizations culture and daily work.
Keywords: Leadership, Health Promotion, Workplace Health, Evaluation, Collaboration, Quality Healthcare