Public Health Leadership Theory and Ethical Considerations in Healthcare

This paper discusses the public health leadership theory and its ethical considerations in healthcare. It explores the gaps in the theory and suggests ways to maintain ethical considerations in the care process.

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Introduction
Public health leadership is the trait or skill of any person who is able to motivate and
influence the community so that they could develop healthy habits and achieve their vision and
goals (Scully, 2015). To develop such traits and skills the leaders require inspirational and
developmental abilities that influence people to motivate others and include strategies to achieve
their goals (Madanchian et al., 2016). In this paper, discussion about the Public health leadership
theory and the way this process could close the gaps would be discussed. Further, its abilities to
incorporate the systems involved processes would be discussed.
Brief description of the leadership theory
There are several aspects and themes which is associated to the public health leadership
theory such as the technical skills, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence as well as the
conceptual skills (Storey, 2016). These skills develops if the person leading any group or
organisation develops abilities and are able to make decisions for the development of the
processes. Hence, it is the responsibility of the leaders to understand the ethical aspects of the
health promotional program so that with the help of morality and human performance the human
performance could be determined (Nawaz & Khan, 2016). Therefore, application of ethical
consideration plays an important role in the public health aspects so that ethical competencies of
the healthcare professionals could be determined (Scully, 2015). In this aspect, it should be
mentioned that with effective leadership, the other healthcare staff working under the leadership
of people develop abilities by acting within their ethical considerations so that the ethical
standard of care could not hampered (Storey, 2016).

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User or group
Area of application
Treatment,
Communication
Dimensions
Individual and
Organizational
Presence of confidence
Privacy
Ability of decision making
Justice
Patient security
Ethical aspect of leadership theory
The gap identified in the theory
The gap identified in the leadership theory for pubic healthcare mentions that majority of
the professionals are unable to take care of their roles and responsibilities due to their
complicated routine and inadequate patient to deal with majority of the healthcare processes

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( Shamir, Arthur & House, 2018). Hence, identification of the gap in the leadership theory
indicated to the fact that leaders were unable to take part in the complicated healthcare theories
due to which they were unable to take effective care of the processes or public healthcare system
developed for the wellbeing of the population. Besides these, the theories were developed
depending upon the fact that majority of the people that were waiting in the queue for their
healthcare process were unable to receive the treatment (Freeman, 2016). In this aspect, the
people were not provided with their right of intervention due to which they suffered from critical
healthcare complications. Hence, the leadership should focus on the fact that majority of the
professionals were unable to take part in the care processes due to their ineffective working
schedule (Nawaz & Khan, 2016). This ultimately affected the patient’s and the healthcare
professionals and their obligation for care process. Therefore, these gaps affected the ethical
considerations of care processes related to autonomy, beneficence, justice and non-maleficence
(Nawaz & Khan, 2016).
How these ethical considerations could be maintained in the care process?
While implementing the ethical considerations in the healthcare facilities, it should be
mentioned that it is the responsibility of the healthcare leadership to maintain and implement a
proper implementation of ethically compliance care process which would help the employees as
well as the patients in the care process about the importance of the ethically compliance care
(Amanchukwu, Stanley & Ololube, 2015). This training or education would be helpful for both
the patients and the care professionals that are working for the growth and benefit of the patients.
This would be an effective measure that would help to implement and conduct an ethically
compliance care process for benefit of the care facility. However, these aspects would only be
implemented if the leadership of the organisation is string and is able to take critical and difficult

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decisions (Nawaz & Khan, 2016). As per the early Great Man theory, the leadership traits are
developed by the leaders if they are provided with effective training or they are able to obtain the
process for their own experiences. If they are provided with the information about the process
with effective training and education (Storey, 2016). Further, there are several traits of the
leaders which cannot be acquired through experiences or training such as the leadership
personality, the leadership quality and others due to which, the healthcare organisations should
be able to choose leaders that are able to take care of the organisation through their leadership
qualities (Amanchukwu, Stanley & Ololube, 2015). For this purpose, the management could
develop a situation and should seek feedback or advice from the healthcare professionals so that
they could identify the person who would be able to lead their healthcare processes and public
healthcare system effectively (Storey, 2016). Therefore, the gaps that has been identified in the
ethical leadership theory for the public healthcare system, indicated to the fact that majority of
the people that are associated with the care profession are suffering from improper leadership or
lack of proper identify and due to this, they are unable to take care of their professional liabilities
effectively (Freeman, 2016).
Conclusion
The primary aim of this paper was to identify the aspects which is important for the
growth and development of the care process so that the entire process could be conducted with
effective skills of the care professionals. This paper discussed about the ethical leadership theory
as per which it is the responsibility of the healthcare leadership to maintain effective abilities so
that they could lead their care unit through critical and crucial situations. In this process, the
ethical leadership theory was implemented in the public healthcare process and this paper
indicated that majority of the care professionals that were involved in the care process were

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associated with the early Great Man theory as per which it is important for the leadership to
develop experience about any critical situation which is important for the growth and
development of the healthcare process. Hence, this paper indicated to the gaps and identified
aspects using which these gaps could be fulfilled.

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