Public Health Administration and Leadership Strategic Plan Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of public health administration and leadership, emphasizing the importance of strategic planning. It explores the roles of leaders in strategic development, leadership challenges, and ethical implications. The report delves into how strategic planning is embedded in public health organizations, using the Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department as a case study. It examines program descriptions, SWOT analysis, and the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of leaders in the field. Furthermore, the report includes an interview with a public health administrator, providing insights into the strategic planning process. The report concludes with a discussion on the application of strategic planning to address public health issues and the importance of community engagement and building constituencies to improve the health of the society, the woman, the children and the infants.

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Public health Administration and Leadership
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Strategic Plan in Public health Administration................................................................................4
Leaders are critical for the strategic development.......................................................................4
Leadership Challenges.....................................................................................................................4
Strategy development includes planning, and the organization’s ‘vision’..................................4
Ethical Implication and Engaging Communities and Building Constituencies...............................5
The art and science of planning should be embedded in the culture of the public health
organization (Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department).......................................................5
How the health Organizations Lake Troubled Shallows Health used strategic planning to
address public health issues.........................................................................................................6
Program Description........................................................................................................................6
SWOT analysis and Strategic planning is a primary function of leadership and management in
public health administration............................................................................................................6
Strength of the leader...................................................................................................................6
Weakness of a leader...................................................................................................................7
Opportunities of a leader.................................................................................................................7

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Contact a health care/public health administrator involved in the strategic planning process. An
interview with a public health administrator based on strategic planning.......................................8
An interview with a public health administrator on strategic planning the following question has
been answered..................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Disease and health issue of the maternal, infant and child and their treatment is a matter
of concern in the woman, infants, children and their family. The objective is to improve the
health of the woman, children and the infants in the United States. It has a huge incidence on the
community and it has an impact on the society. The well being of the next generation if predicted
earlier can be prevented. The objectives include a wide range of health preventive issue that
affects the heath and quality of life for those families.
There are many health issues in the woman during pregnancy, and there are future health
problems in the woman and the children which includes hypertension, diabetes, depression and
unhealthy weight and nutrition (Adams,2013).
Strategic Plan in Public health Administration
Leaders are critical for the strategic development
A leader is someone who guides the team, therefore it is important that the strengths of
the leader are determined and who will help in the determination of the team work. The strengths
that are seen in a leader are that they are confident and experienced in guiding the team. The
leader shall have the capability of being dynamic and having the potentiality to improve the team
as a whole. Thus he takes the initiative to improve the overall work.
Leadership Challenges
Strategy development includes planning, and the organization’s ‘vision’
The tactical planning helps in achieving the organizational goals in the public
administrative offices. The practical approach is important for the organization to move ahead.

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The practical approach used by the organization so as to provide the organization with the blue
print of moving ahead. In the upcoming years, an effective leadership plan can be planned. The
health organizations need to be improved and an effective training needs to be provided to the
members so that the systems can be improved and a better service can be offered which will
result in a better future condition (Felício, Gonçalves & da Conceição Gonçalves,2013).
Ethical Implication and Engaging Communities and Building Constituencies
The art and science of planning should be embedded in the culture of the public health
organization (Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department)
Public health professionals will focus on local, regional, or state responsibilities in the
planning process of the public health organization. Lake Troubled Shallows Health Department,
Minnesota is an organization for public health. The planning in the culture of health science has
a vast impact on the public health and thereby affects the health status of the society. The
Healthy People 2020 are the strategies and guidelines which affect the strategic planning process.
Planning is vital for the health professionals .It serve as a tool of success. Thus the health
organization shall concentrate on maintaining a culture which is critical to the public health
operation (Gonzalez, Rodriguez & Sossa,2017).
Planning becomes a vital part of the Lake Troubled Shallows Health organization. The
leaders use the strategic system for development. There should be a road map for the
organization so as to enable them in making strategies which is effective for the organization and
helps in the improvement of the health of the society, the woman, the children and the infants
(Grant, 2016).

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How the health Organizations Lake Troubled Shallows Health used strategic planning to
address public health issues
1. The scarce resources and especially the population in the health and public health
practice are important in making a strategic plan.
2. For the Public health agencies whose current planning is to give priority in setting the
efforts which is focused on single metrics for the cost‐effectiveness.
3. In the demonstration by SMART Vaccines, where a decision support system is used by
the Institute and it is helpful for making strategic planning and decision so as the formal
incorporation by the stakeholders are taken and the criteria for cost effectiveness is used
for public health planning (Popescu & Predescu, 2016).
4. The Institutions of public health administration has come out with a number of tools so as
to educate the people and the society and so that the health of the population is increased
on a large scale. The populations for health care focus on the health and public health
practice.
Program Description
SWOT analysis and Strategic planning is a primary function of leadership and
management in public health administration
Strength of the leader
A leader in the public health organization plays a vital role since they guide the whole
team. He is the person who leads the team. The strengths of the leader are to bring out the
powers and strength of the team members. The in the public health department has to take care of

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the health of the mothers, infants and their family so as to promote the well being of them
(McVeigh et al, 2016). They are strong, confident thereby gaining experience by working for
improvement of the health of the people and for prevention of the disease. The leaders are
dynamic who helps to improve the potential capability of the members to help to fulfill the goal
of improvement of health of the society.
Weakness of a leader
The greatest weakness of a leader is that he becomes rude and adamant person in the
team, which is a negative trait and which will de motivate the people and the goals cannot be
achieved. The team leader shall always set the priorities. He shall not be too accessible to the
team members and he should not have the negative traits of answering the unnecessary ones.
Currently the biggest weaknesses the leaders are facing are the stagnancy. The stagnant
performance of a leader can affect his team (Nooteboom & Termeer, 2013).
Opportunities of a leader
 With the changing lifestyle and change in the public health organization it is important
for the public health organization to take preventive steps for the taking xcare of the
health of the people. The education and the developing economics have resulted in the
growth of the cosmetic sector. In these days the person are taken well care of for the
health of the woman, child and therefore helps in the prevention of the diseases of them.
 There is a demand in the public health administration and people including the family
members look upon as a support and guidance so as to help them prevent any disease.
Thus the company will be able to be a leader in the industey and is able to participate in
the community which focuses on the society (Gulati and Soni, 2015).

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Threats:
 International and well established administrative have already been established and there
are many centers which takes care of the disease in woman and infants thus this can
affect the industry thus can limit their growth rate.
 Secondly due to the changing lifestyle of the people, most of the people are becoming
sensitive to the all the things. Thus there are allergies to the people and therefore they
face risk and there is loss of people. They shall make strategic planning and have decision
making so that there is proper resource allocation.
Contact a health care/public health administrator involved in the strategic planning
process. An interview with a public health administrator based on strategic planning
An interview is conducted with the health care administrator through Skype and they
review the goals of strategic planning for improvement in the health of the society. The plan is
effective for the improvement and betterment of the society. The health is an important factor in
the human life therefore on interview with the public administrator they said that have made the
plans and they came out with a various plans for the woman and the infants that they face when
they are infants (Reich & Gregory, 2014).
One of the examples is RONNA GOTTHAINER: They had a plan in place, and then
things happened that were beyond their control that changed things. In 2009, Health Department
suffered about a 43% cut in one of our funding sources. And that supported quite a few programs
that local health departments had, which meant that they had to very quickly determine how to

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stop providing certain services, how to try to move staff into other programs. But ultimately, we
were required to lay off some staff, shut some programs down.
An interview with a public health administrator on strategic planning the following
question has been answered
1. How often do you and your organization engage in the strategic planning process?
The representative of the organization said that they meet up once in a quarter and discuss on
the changes and improvement of the health of the society
2. How do you utilize the strategic plan?
The strategic plan is a vital management tool for the company. The plan helps the
organization to predict and implement the changes that is required in the organization. With the
changes and improvement in the preventive measures, many organizations have helped the
community to lead a better life and the organization is focusing in doing so.
3. Please describe this plan
The plan in not for a long term basis it is according to the changes in the health sector. All
the factors and improvement are taken in record.
4. What are your thoughts about the strategic planning process? How well is it working?
There is no one model of strategic planning. However, the strategic planning process, it
should include the situational analysis. It consists of looking at the current external and
internal environment, the organization finds itself in, formulating organizational

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objectives and strategies based upon the environmental assessment, and developing
procedures to implement and evaluate the strategic plan. Strategic plans for business
organizations often cover a three-to-five year period, but if the business or its
environment is highly dynamic, a shorter period may be advisable.

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