Leadership in Practice: Essentials for Public Health and Healthcare Leaders

This book is a valuable resource for nascent and existing leaders of public health care, providing practical, sustainable, and universal skills and abilities to navigate the complex and rapidly changing system. It covers essential competencies such as effective dialogue, ethical leadership, moral courage, systems thinking, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, and discusses challenges such as change leadership, developing an equity mindset, effective leadership during organizational crises, and meaningful engagement with communities. Case studies and insights from diverse leaders in the field help to illustrate real-world examples and lessons learned.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 490 pages
Publication date: 10 August 2022
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc

This book is a comprehensive, well-researched, and well-presented guide for nascent and existing leaders of public health care who navigate the complex, fragmented, often underfunded, and rapidly changing system. It is a most valuable resource. ---Doody's Review Service, 5 stars.

Leadership in Practice prepares leaders for the unpredictability, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty they will face while leading public health and healthcare organizations and teams. It equips leaders with practical, sustainable, and universal skills, abilities, and intangibles needed to thrive in a constantly-evolving environment.

Building on a solid theoretical foundation, Leadership in Practice addresses the challenges leaders face in many contexts by exploring the skills and behaviors necessary for the effective practice of leadership. Integrating the most relevant leadership theories, their history, evidence, and application in public health and healthcare, chapters focus on the essential competencies that leaders in public health and healthcare must master, including effective dialogue, ethical leadership and moral courage, systems thinking, strategic thinking and analysis, and emotional intelligence.

The textbook discusses the many challenges leaders face, including change leadership, developing an equity mindset, effective leadership during organizational crises, and meaningful engagement with the communities served. Case studies relevant to public health and healthcare examine topics such as leadership during COVID-19, Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, community engagement and team building, hiring diverse personnel, preventing burnout, and more to provide lessons learned from real-world examples.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780826149237