Australian Public Health Professionals

Running head: AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................2
DISCUSSION............................................................................................................................2
PART 1...................................................................................................................................2
Leads Self...........................................................................................................................3
Engages Others...................................................................................................................3
Drives Innovation...............................................................................................................4
Achieves Outcomes............................................................................................................4
Shapes Systems..................................................................................................................5
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................5
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

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INTRODUCTION
Leadership is present in all type of industries. However, especially in the case of
health and hospital sector because of the complexity, the leadership is given more importance
because of the “complexity and the purpose”. According to Agarwal et al. (2016), All the
health leader always work towards the “clinical betterment” of the quality of the “life
indicators and the wellbeing of the health systems”. According to a research, “the quality of
health leadership directly and indirectly affects the quality of patient care and is an important
factor supporting best practice”. As mentioned by the author Shannon (2015), A leader is
responsible for ‘people, their satisfaction, trust in management, commitment, individual and
team effectiveness and the culture and climate of organizations”. Leadership plays a vital role
in motivating towards the common organizational goal of overall improvement and
betterment”.
DISCUSSION
PART 1
AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH
According to Bradd, Travaglia & Hayen (2017), talking about the “public health”
scenario in Australia, the leadership structure that is mainly focused on the health system of
the mass should be “equitable, effective and sustainable”. As per Dickson & Tholl (2014),
The main characteristics of Australian health leadership framework includes “the leads self,
how the leader is able to engages with other, how the leaders towards the better of the
organizations and achieve the outcome and how the leader should always work for the
betterment and innovation”. A good leader should be able to understand the system properly

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and then form strategies according in order to work for the betterment of the organization and
the system”.
Leads Self
Talking about the scenario, the Helen who is the leader of the should have the self
belief. Since she is a “young single women with little General practitioner experience”, her
leadership techniques is being considered as “skepticism by policy makers, senior
government stakeholders, senior citizens in the Community and town planners”. The
community was also orthodox and was also not open to a young independent women being at
a leadership position. Helen was appointed as the new “public health officer” in the
Melbourne area in Australia. Her main focus was on the betterment of health facilities of the
population as a whole. She wants to in cooperate new “sanitation, housing, infection control
and immunization programs” for the community as a whole. Helena as a good and efficient
leader should be “self aware” and should try and understand the mindset of the various
“government stakeholders and the senior members of the community” so that they could be
able to pursue them for her Nobel cause. Helena should show the strength of her character
and should not be introvert and not confident enough to face her “stakeholders nor managed
many subordinates” who was not so supportive of her polices (Chapman, Johnson & Kilner
2014).
Engages Others
As a good leader, Helen was correct in order to incorporate the various members of
the “close knit” community and “empower” them in order to take controls and action for
betterment of their own environment and to involve them in the decision making process.
Helen`s main concern as a “public health officer” was the fact that there has been many death
which has occurred in the “remote area” of Melbourne mainly due to the “lack of specialized
care” and proper medical facilities. Helen wanted to introduce the new and improved