Case Study: Leadership Strategies for Public Health in Oldport

This case study examines the public health challenges arising from a severe flood in Oldport, a coastal town reliant on coal mining. The study identifies physical, emotional, and infectious disease problems resulting from the disaster, including serious fractures and potential amputations. It proposes a month-long strategy for identifying and addressing these health issues, emphasizing data collection, research, group discussions, and remedial steps. Recommendations for key stakeholders, such as training sessions, concert events, and amplified communication, are suggested to ensure commitment and adoption of effective measures to mitigate the public health crisis. This document is available on Desklib, a platform that offers a range of study tools, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Types of public health problems..................................................................................................................3
How will use the first month’s phase to identify the actual public health problems that exist or might
emerge.........................................................................................................................................................5
Propose commitment and adoption of recommendations by the various key stakeholders..........................7
Problems that are anticipated in carrying out the task effectively................................................................9
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The primary purpose of this task is to discuss and outline information about the issues and
challenges which are being encountered by the public due to flood. The paper outlines the
various types of health problems that were predicted in the case study. It also highlights that how
people can go beyond the first phase to analyze and measure the actual public health problems.
At the end, some recommendations have been discussed in the task that helps in minimizing the
public health issues. The paper gives the answers of the questions on the basis of the case study.
Case study background
On the night of 15th January a freak and terrible event occurred in Oldport. The melted snow
inland had raised the high water levels in the river olden. Due to flood, Oldport had to suffer
relatively higher damage than neighboring areas. Although, there was a warning which helped
the people to overcome the situation but still some changes were needed there. The mines were
flooded and the external assistance was not quite enough for 36 hours because only helicopters
could reach the town due to the flooding. Second day, some assistance were given by the
government. There was an instant surge of assistance for oldport with the innovative agencies
and military to save the life of people. Emergency food was supplied and temporary shelter was
set up in the town. But the emergency relief was also stopped that time. Thus, various challenges
were faced by the people.
Types of public health problems
On the night of 15th January an incident occurred that hampered the life and health of the people
highly. Various people were caught in the flood water and some people were died. Flood is a

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natural disaster which was occurred in Old port. It also affected various neighbor areas. Along
with this, it was harmful for life of people, animals, building, transports, economy,
accommodations, hospitals, schools and crops etc. In the given case study many health problems
raised due to the flood like infectious and surgery issues. There were approx 200 people killed
due to this event and many bodies could not recover. In addition, the automobile parts warehouse
distorted. There was very less social disorder and it was also influenced the life of people
adversely.
There are various public health problems raised in the given case study which is discussed
below.
 Physical and emotional problems: The people encountered many physical and
emotional problems. Unfortunately spilt from family, meet with an accident, they faced
many losses like property, crops, business, home and family. All things affected the
health and well being of people adversely. The people had to face lot problems and issues
due to flood. The people got depress and mentally disorder. It also affected their thinking
power highly. Some persons fallen under debris and die, some became handicap and
disable (Kongstvedt, 2013).
 Serious Facture: It was major issue which affects the health of the people. Due to flood
people got serious facture and suffered from various diseases that could not be emerged
in entire life. Along with that, the people entertained serious complications and many
bones broke and diagnosed from illness and infections. Then the affected part has to be
separated from its limb (Scheirer and Dearing, 2011).
 Infectious diseases: Infectious diseases were caused by organism for example: bacteria,
virus and fangs etc. which is spread form one person to another. Infectious diseases are

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malaria, typhoid, influenza etc which were faced by the people in the given case study.
Besides this, the hospitals had to stop and patients were being referred to another hospital
due to flood issue (Head and Alford, 2015).
 Amputations: Amputations mean remove a part of body from the limb via surgery. It
arises when a person feel unbearable pains and incredible diseases. The condition of
organ transplantation also arises. This public health issue was also going on the in case
study.
The emergency services would be provided like food, restore housing and water supplies.
Damages and losses will be compensated. Good and healthy food can be provided.
Moreover, the insurance company paid out as soon as possible if person have health
insurance. It will be helpful in determining and analyzing the priorities effectively.
Proper and sufficient rest will be rendered. Keep the infected person separate so that virus
does not spread as it will also help in reducing public health issues. The dynamic and
effective test should be done in transit. Treatment will be given and medicines shall be
given time to time. If a person has an emotional problems and it is the reason of
depression than counseling can be done and motivational speech will be provided to
make happy and healthy (Potter et al, 2016).
How will use the first month’s phase to identify the actual public health problems that exist
or might emerge
To identify the actual public health problems that exist or may emerge, people need to follow
some steps that have been presented below.

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Make a strategy: The leaders will have to build a team and need to create a list of roles and
responsibilities. After then roles will be assigned after considering the ability as it will help in
using the first month’s phase to identify and analyze the actual public health problems and issues
that exist. Then, they need to make a plan. In this plan will include all the health problems and
diseases. Vision and mission statement would be developed. All things will be managed
according to the time and budget. Additionally, strong and unique strategy will help in making
first month plan to eliminate the public health problems (Ghaffarzadegan et al, 2011).
Identify Disease: In this stage, the diseases and illness need to be identified and analyzed. In this
process, kind and type of diseases and illness are analyzed and determined. It will be beneficial
to eradicate the public health issues and diseases.
Research and collect data: There is need to research regarding the disease and then will find out
the actual condition of health issues. Collection of facts, analyze pervious and present scenario
are needed to evaluate and identify the issues related to public health in first month. It is worth
noted that data and facts will be collected from the hospitals, surveys, past history and
observation to minimize and eliminate the health diseases. It is analyzed from the various studies
that research is important to provide information about the disease, risk factors, treatment, care
and care cost. This research can be helped to improve services and treatment not only for present
as well as future also. The data will be collected after analyzing and measuring the data. It will
also be beneficial for the future (Bryson, 2018). In one month phase, the leaders can check
whether a drug is safe or the side effects it causes. In next phase, the professionals aim to test and
evaluate whether a new treatment is better than existing treatments. It will help in measuring the
tremendous public health issues in a unique way.

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Share ideas and discuss in group: All the team members need to gather and share ideas, point
of view and observations regarding the health issues. Every person will present own ideas and
suggestion to detect the health issues and problems. It will different from the others idea and
view. The discussion would be done in a group and make a summary of it to identify the serious
diseases (Goldberg and McGee, 2011).
Remedial steps/ Solutions: The professionals need to create some graphs and charts of disease
and device to make people understandable easily. They will tell about the disease to people and
will also explain the issues that occur. The environment would keep safe and clean to analyze the
health diseases and issues. Also, it will help in stopping infections. Free health check will be
organized. The every person should aware for the monitoring health status (Brownson et al,
2017) .
Feedback: The team will create a feedback form to collect the views of patients. If some health
issues and diseases arise in present or future this shall be listed in their record so they can take
feedback related to remedial steps which are useful for them. And they also find out the loop
falls if some is existed (Cherqui et al, 2015).
Propose commitment and adoption of recommendations by the various key stakeholders
There are various ways to propose commitment and implementation of recommendations by the
various key stakeholders have been discussed below.
Conduct Training sessions: The organization should conduct training and development sessions
to propose excellent commitments. This will help them to understand what is the natural disaster
(Flood)?, Why is it happened? What are the remedial steps of this? What should people do at the
time and after flooding? Which kind of health issues and infections can rise? Training should be

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given through a presentation so that people can understand better and easily. The leaders shall
teach them to help to others who under the trouble and fall into water etc (Covello and
Merkhoher, 2013).
Learn about everything possible: Everything should be learned whatever is possible to
eliminate the public health issues. There is a need to learn everything about the calamity, health
issue which is raised due to lack of proper resources and amenities. That is why leaders should
learn each and everything.
Launch a concert and event: Event schedule shall be made and launched live concerts in order
to propose commitment in a hassle free manner. All schedules will be visible and effective to
people. Apart from this, next concert would be announced in present concert whereby, more and
more people get together and attend the concerts. It will be helpful to aware people for removing
diseases and other public health issues.
Make a list: List must be prepared whenever starts the work. It will help in analyzing and
evaluating the needs and requirements of people to a large context.
Amplify communication: It is studied that Communication and collaboration shall be amiable
and effective to overcome the issues and barriers. The leaders should posse’s innovative and
dynamic skills to communicate with suffered people. Discussion would be done in the groups,
camps must be organized and survey must be done.
Aware regarding the government policies: Government have separate fund to help the make
aware them to medical facility and temporary accommodations.

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Stakeholders play a major role in each and every organization whether it is public and private
sectors. In recent few years, stakeholders committee becomes better and unique as compared to
earlier. The stakeholders in health care system include insurance companies, government,
employers and suffered patients. The stakeholder engagement is essential to determine long term
progress and success internationally. The stakeholders should perform tasks and duties in a
hassle free manner (Cresswell and Sheikh, 2013). Moreover, flooding insurance should be done
by the stakeholders of the organization. The leaders and employee should lead initiatives and
activities effectively to make happy the suffered people. NGO should be built and developed on
the behalf of the company. Herby, it will help to the people as well other person to minimize
health issues. It is further stated from the various studies that stakeholder should give advice to
director related to flood areas. The partnerships within the context of health promotion must
focus on health outputs in an efficient manner to minimize and detect health issues. The nurses
and other employees should maintain amicable relationship with diagnosed or suffered people to
make pleasant and cheer the patients. Besides this, the government can conduct various social
awareness programs to protect the rights and life of suffered patients globally (Ioannou and
Serafeim, 2015). The stakeholders also play a major and empirical role in the flood risk
management. The finding and timing the suitable people in the governmental agencies turn out to
be significant elements for creating support for local stakeholder initiatives in flood risk
management. In addition, the stakeholders should promote CSR and sustainability practices and
initiatives to measure and determine the issues.
Problems that are anticipated in carrying out the task effectively
There are several problems faced while carrying out the tasks and duties effectively. In the given
case study, a task has been assigned to design and create a two year programme which is a

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significant part of a longer term development packing using Europan commission, Welsh
assembly government and UK government relief money. The first crucial and serious issue that a
project or task leader in health care may face does not know what exactly to predict from the
task. If the objectives and goals are not clearly explained, the task is ruined to fail. If no one is
aware of the whats, whens and whys of the task, what would follow is ample of chaos and
confusion. Without effective and defined goals and objectives, the task cannot be completed
successfully. Budget is one of the biggest issues in implementing the tasks successfully. Budget
is an important factor for completing the task in a hassle free manner. It will also help in business
planning and evaluating the new opportunities (Fransen et al, 2011). Due to inadequate budget,
the people are unable to address the well being and health problems and issues caused by the
flooding. Furthermore, one of the crucial issues that faced while exercising tasks successful is
time period or deadline (Cresswell et al, 2013). The leaders struggle with the unexpected
demands and needs of the clients and stakeholders. Most of the task timelines do ultimately slip
due to the unexpected and unrealistic initial deadlines or time. Lack of communication is another
issue that is entertained while initiating the task carefully and successfully. Due to this issue, the
people are unable to collect data and statistical analysis. Furthermore, the leaders cannot manage
the first one month preparation to analyze and produce the needed report without effective
communication and collaboration. Moreover, team members are allocated duties and task on
their availability, not for their expertise and talents for many projects. If the employees are not
trained and qualified enough to meet the challenges and issues assigned tasks, it can put the
enhancement and development of the project in a risky spot. Risk management is also a major
issue that leaders will have to deal with (Schiff, 2015). These risks and challenges can be
indecision in the financial market, hidden flaws in the task and unknown components that can

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impact the progress and success of a task (Schelfaut et al, 2011). Additionally, a team comprises
multiple team members, each having various personalities, handling and catering to their needs
and requirements that can be a intimidating tasks and duties at times. With so many team
members working on a specific task or project together, there can be disagreements and gaps in a
team that can have adverse effects on the working environment and task. Incongruities and
obstacles amongst team members is repeatedly an issue for a leader to handle with. All these
challenges and hurdles are anticipated in carrying out the tasks successfully and efficiently
(Proofhub, 2019). It will further help in resolving and handling various threats and challenges
related to health.
Conclusion
It is concluded from the above discussed analysis that public health problems and issues are
identified and estimated in the task largely which are being occurred due to flood. Moreover, it is
noted that there are several ways to use the first month phase for identifying the actual public
health issues and challenges that exist or might emerge. Furthermore, it is evaluated from the
case study that stakeholders play a major role in detecting and preventing the public health issues
and obstacles. Various recommendations also are given to minimize flood issues by the
tremendous stakeholders. There are various issues faced or entertained in implementing the task
carefully and adequately.

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