Leadership in Public Health

Leadership In Public
Health
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
This essay will critically explore the leadership’s concept and models and foremost
organisational change as well as how they inform public health practice. Additionally, the
essay will critically evaluate role of public health leadership and associated model in
providing community based programmes associated with health promotion.
To effect public health agenda in the twenty-first century, National Health Services
training and education in leadership is the key aspect to success (Wilsion and Malbhala 2008).
Leadership skills is important because it develops a mutual purpose for different people to do
different work, inspire them to believe in order to deliver benefits to service users, their families
as well as communities. The way a leader manage things is the central part of being a good
leader (Wilson and Mabhala, 2008). There are many skills which are needed in an individual
for becoming an effective leader. Political astuteness is one of the skills which is very much
needed as leadership situational and it is essential to equip leaders to fit the context. The skills
necessary at different levels but perhaps very much needed in challenging the failures of policy
and advocating distinct approach (Hunter, 2009).
BACKGROUND
Leaders are the individuals who have their own vision and they are able to think of the
future. Leaders play significant role in executing change within the organisation and
communicate vision to the team members in an effective way and influence them to work hard
towards accomplishing that vision (Yphantides, Escoboza and Macchione, 2015). In addition to
this, they are grounded in values that provide a base for organisational vision along with the
patient to attain organisational as well as personal goals. Leadership is referred as the process in
which leaders influence individual or group of people to attain organisational goal (Kunwar and
Srisvatava, 2018).
Change is a continuous process, undergoing to which is very necessary for every
organisation. A three step model change theory is given by Kurt Lewin which includes three
stages: unfreeze, change and refreeze. In the very initial stage of change, the healthcare
organisation prepares to accept to change that includes developing a new way to perform a
particular activity or process. The main goal of this stage is develop awareness regarding how
current acceptability level hinder an organisation in some way and make them inform about
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