Public health leadership critique

Reference no: EM13976498

Topic:
LEADING AND LEARNING IN PUBLIC HEALTH

No# of Pages:
14 pages (3,500 words)

Subject Area:
Public Health

Paper Style:
Harvard

No# of Sources Required:
18

Details:

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dividual Assignment

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Final Project: Leading and Learning in Global Public Health (5,000 words, 80%)

At the beginning of this module, you started down the path to becoming a leader in public health by identifying your personal and professional goals in this space. Now, in this final unit, you will have the opportunity to see if and how those goals have changed based on your learning in this module. You will also have a chance to see just how far you have come as you synthesise your previous Individual Assignments and associated Faculty Member feedback into your Final Project.

For this Final Project, you will complete three different elements pertaining to leadership in public health. Each part will be a separate paper consisting of a personal reflection, a public health leadership critique and a public health management analysis. A brief break down of each of the three parts is as follows:

Three Parts:

Part 1 - Public Health Leadership Critique

1500 words, 30% of Final Project grade

Part 2 - Public Health Management Analysis

2000 words, 40% of Final Project grade

Part 3 - Personal and Professional Development Plan (PPDP) and Reflective Portfolio

1500 words, 30% of Final Project grade

To complete this Final Project:

Part 1: Public Health Leadership Critique (1500 words; 30% of Final Project grade)

This part aims to determine how you address the following:

Critically analyse contrasting leadership theories, concepts or models that interest you.

Evaluate the relevance of your selected theories, concepts or models to contemporary leaders. Be sure to justify your methods for evaluation.

Explain the role of trust within the frameworks of your theories, concepts or models.

Identify the implications for personal, team and organisational effectiveness for improving health and managing disease, in regards to your selected theories, concepts or models.

In the critique, please be sure to address the following:

Include both an introduction and conclusion.

Fully state and justify any choices or assumptions that you make using the suggested readings for this unit as well as your own research. Include references to any sources you have used. All sources should be cited using Harvard Referencing Style.

A. Contrasting Leadership Models

Compose a brief biography of two contemporary, successful health care leaders. Who are they? What have they achieved? Why are they significant enough to warrant analysis?

Summarise the region, background and applicable health care organisations pertaining to each of your selected public health leaders.

Compare and contrast the leadership qualities of each of your selected leaders. Be sure to address the following questions:

What characteristics are desirable? Why?

What characteristics should be avoided? Why?

Compare and contrast the different approaches your selected leaders take in leading health systems and evaluate their effectiveness at improving health and managing disease in their respective regions/organisations.

B. Human Resource Challenges

Describe a challenge or opportunity associated with improving public health in a selected region of the world.

Explain a plan for addressing the challenge or opportunity and how it will improve public health.

Identify the staffing needs required to execute your plan.

Justify the need for each team member.

Describe and evaluate (in terms of likelihood to occur) leadership and human resource management challenges that could arise managing this new staff.

Suggest models from your unit readings, or your own research, that could address these challenges.

Evaluate the effectiveness of these models.

Part 2: Public Health Management Analysis (2000 words; 40% of Final Project grade)

A. Financing Public Health Care

Summarise the region of the world you selected. Include some brief public health information about the region, including the average length of life and the main diseases from which people die. Describe how the health care system/s are organised.

Evaluate methods for financing health systems in your selected region. Your evaluation should be based on factors such as the amount of financing, its reliability and how its use is governed and overseen.

Describe leadership challenges that you might face arising from funding issues.

You should fully state and justify any choices or assumptions that you make using the suggested readings for this unit as well as your own research. Include references to any sources you have used. All sources should be cited using Harvard Referencing Style.

B. Evaluating Health Improvement

Summarise a public health organisation and the population it serves.

Identify the needs of the population it serves.

Determine what steps you would take to cultivate total quality management and develop a culture of ongoing improvement.

Identify ways that you will incentivise employee performance. Evaluate your incentives in terms of motivational effectiveness. You should support your claims on effectiveness using research from the unit readings or your own sources.

Part 3: Personal and Professional Development Plan and Reflective Portfolio (1500 words; 30% of Final Project grade)

Identify key personal learning goals and provide a clear rationale for why these goals are important at this stage in your overall growth as a public health professional.

Create an action plan to achieve your personal learning goals and future plans as a leader.

In your action plan, integrate goals reflecting ethical professional behaviour.

Critically analyse the relationship between your goals and action plan and the requirements of becoming a public health leader.

Support all of your claims with evidence from professional literature.

By the end of this unit, submit all elements of your Final Project to your Faculty Member for grading. These elements, and their grade weights, are described in the Final Project area of the Module Menu.

Submit Part 1 of the Final Project (Public Health Leadership Critique) as a Word document to the Final Project Part 1

Submit Part 2 of the Final Project (Public Health Management Analysis) as a Word document to the Final Project Part 2

Submit Part 3 of the Final Project (Personal and Professional Development Plan and Reflective Portfolio) as a Word document to the Final Project Part 3

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