Public Health
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The professional growth of public health leaders strategically needs competency-centered instructions to boost their efforts and ability to address challenging and changing wants for essential services confidently. Also, the public health typically recommends that all the local health sub-divisions leaders should apply their leadership and governance knowledge hence allowing them to have an impact on the society health results adequately. There are four major categories of public health leadership competencies, and they comprise of the core transformational competencies, political competencies, trans-organizational dynamics, and team-building competencies. As observed by Clark, J., & Armit, K. (2010), the fundamental purpose and intentions of having transformational competencies is to acquire skills that broadly relate to the visioning, and creating a given mission. Also, it entails developing the essential change strategies and strictly becoming a change agent. Transformational leaders will at many occasions associate with others in such a manner that other leaders and followers encourage one another to a higher degree of motivation and morality.
Public health crisis is typically referred to as a challenging moment or a complex health system that has an adverse effect to the human living condition and may lead to loss of lives, community health risk and an adverse impact on the economy. Currently, in the United States, there is a significant public health crisis regarding the primary health care services as many individuals including the health insurance are typically unable to access a doctor or a dentist when they need one. The outcome is that many patients are exposed to suffering and even getting sicker than they ought to be thus making it a severe health crisis. Some of the patients end up at costly emergency rooms while others in hospitals (Czabanowska et al. 2013). The American healthcare system spends billions of dollars on expensive care that can be avoided through the implementation of a stable primary care system that will serve patients promptly. Practically, having reliable access to high-quality essential healthcare is a significant part of what keeps individuals healthy.
Having looked at the current health crisis in America and the transformational competencies that are fundamental in public health institutions, it is essential to acknowledge that transformational skills are critical in handling the current health crisis in the United States. A public health profession is an occupation that needs to incorporate the transformational leadership theory into the entire practice setting as this will be significant in intellectual stimulation (Gravitz, 2011). Typically, mental stimulation concentrates on the doctor’s efforts to facilitate and encourage other working staff to practice problem-solving skills together with the creative and innovative mechanism to daily operations or other conditions that arises like the current health crisis in America. Moreover, transformational competencies in public health leadership create an inspirational motivation that focuses on the doctor’s efforts of inspiring and motivating his staff in the most visible, active and creates nurturing relationships with nurses and other medical workers.
Typically, leadership in the time of a crisis is strategically different with the administration in the occasions of standard conditions as there are challenges associated with effective leadership styles regarding public health in the United States (Clark & Armit, 2010). These conditions are associated with constant stress and tension as leaders will involve in a stressful and tense environmental setting that exposes them to enormous psychological, mental and physical pressure. Moreover, even the most minor efforts and decisions reached this condition may lead to catastrophic effects. Speed is another challenge as every occasion may end up happening at a fast rate thus creating less time opportunity for thoughtful considerations.
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Clark, J., & Armit, K. (2010). Leadership competency for doctors: a framework. Leadership in Health Services, 23(2), 115-129.
Czabanowska, K., Smith, T., Könings, K. D., Sumskas, L., Otok, R., Bjegovic-Mikanovic, V., & Brand, H. (2013). In search for a public health leadership competency framework to support leadership curriculum–a consensus study. The European Journal of Public Health, 24(5), 850-856.
Gravitz, L. (2011). A smouldering public-health crisis. Nature, 474, S2.