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1. Assignment: Your personal Public Health Leadership Theory
Assignment: Your personal Public Health Leadership Theory ON Assignment: Your
personal Public Health Leadership TheoryFor your final written assignment, you refine and
develop your Public Health Leadership Theory based on leadership theories and a systems
approach learned in this course. For this Assignment, your theory should reflect Instructor
feedback, researched studies, introspection, innovation, and literature analysis.The
Assignment (15–20 pages):Section 1 — Abstract and Introduction (1–2 pages)Section 2 —
Revised Literature Review and Problem Statement (5–7 pages):Literature Review to
include:A synthesis of the literature of 15–20 peer reviewed, scholarly resourcesA
description of theoretical gaps in the researchProblem Statement to include:An explanation
of the specific problem that addresses identified gaps within the literatureAn explanation of
how your problem statement incorporates implications for positive social change.Section 3
— Personal Public Health Leadership Theory (2–3 pages):An articulation of your personal
Public Health Leadership TheorySection 4 — Revised Visual Representation of Your Public
Health Leadership Theory (3–4 pages):Your visual representation should include:Your
personal Public Health Leadership Theory to address the gaps identified in the literatureA
visual representation of the theory (e.g. table, graph, matrix)A explanation on how the
theory addresses the literature gap identified in Week 5A description of how your theory
incorporates aspects of systems thinkingSection 5 — Empirical Evaluation Plan for a Public
Health Leadership Theory (3–4 pages):You will assess if the newly developed leadership
theory addresses the problem you have been working on. What methodological steps will
you use? How will you collect data? Suggestion – start with how theories in our text are
evaluated. It does not have to be detailed, but it must include the methods, measures and
analytic techniques.If the assignments are done correctly, there should be an alignment
from the topic of choice to the evaluation:The topic is researched in the literatureThe
literature review points out a theoretical gap that needs to be addressed by leadershipThe
gap is turned into a problem statementA leadership theory to address the problem
proposedThe theory is depicted in a visual; and finallyAn evaluation plan describes how the
newly developed theory resolves the problem identified in the literatureTo further help,
examples (Two final projects – permission given to post) are located in the Doc Sharing area
for this weekSection 6 — Conclusion (1–2 pages)Section 7 — ReferencesAn APA-formatted
reference list of 15–20 peer-reviewed, scholarly journalsRESOURCESNahavandi, A.
(2014). The art and science of leadership (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.Chapter
1, “Definition and Significance of Leadership”Chapter 6, “Current Era in Leadership”Chapter

2. 7, “Other Leadership Perspectives”Chapter 9, “Leading Change”Chapter 10, “Developing
Leaders”Koh, H. (2009). Fostering public health leadership. Journal of Public Health, 31(2),
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Attachment PreviewPUBH 8400: Leadership and System Thinking Tamillia Cherry Fall
Quarter Walden University October 2, 2017 Introduction Public health is basically about
ensuring the health and prosperity of communities and in addition enhancing the
communities through infection counteractive action, instruction, and open arrangement
advancement (Ham, 2003). Public health administration is, consequently, a standout
amongst the most basic ranges in public health since it helps in encouraging public health
by advancing practices aimed at upgrading public health. There are a few basic patterns in
public health leadership today, and sound open leaders must be all around so as to manage
issues of people in general inside any given setting. Creating superb initiative aptitudes is
subsequently key in managing some normal patterns that are influencing public health
today (Ham, 2003). The public health management has an essential part to play considering
the present and future changes in the field of social insurance. The progressions make
openings and difficulties to these leaders and may affect either emphatically or contrarily
later on the soundness of groups. A portion of the normal patterns that make difficulties to
them incorporate maturing of the populace, the changing human services needs of people,
changing examples in the racial synthesis with differed social insurance needs, changes in
medicinal services conveyance frameworks, advancing necessities in public health
workforce, and a blast of rising social insurance advancements (Ham, 2003). This writing
audit will, accordingly, concentrate on assessing public health administration concerning
the changing medicinal services needs of people Problem statement The healthcare services
conveyance framework has experienced a considerable measure of changes, and the leaders
are required to champion the progressions by incorporating such changes inside the setting
of open authority. These progressions may not the leaders since a few changes are fixated
on frameworks and innovation that public health leadership will be unable to have the
required aptitudes and mastery to encourage or embrace inside the public health
framework. Assignment: Your personal Public Health Leadership TheoryThe adjustments in
the delivery framework are gone for taking and meeting the changing human services needs
of people. These developing needs correspondingly make a test to the leaders as they are
required to give health administrations customized to the shifted needs of individuals.
Literature review Lukas et al. (2007) in their article titled ‘transformational change in
healthcare delivery system” contends that five key components are basic for a fruitful
change of patient care inside the public health framework. One of the five components
specified in the article is an initiative sense of duty regarding quality. From their point of
view, a compelling initiative in the public health is the capacity of a leader to accomplish
consistency in meeting the changing needs of patients by adjusting the hierarchical
objectives to the general advancing needs of patients. The five components said by Lukas et
al. (2007) in the article drive change inside the public health framework by building up an
administration culture that mirrors the changing needs of patients and the human services
conveyance framework as a rule. Human services experts and public health leaders can

3. extensively conceptualize status for change in the general wellbeing framework. Stop et al.
(2010) characterizes status for change inside the public health framework as the level of
arrangement to which the members are by and large and independently arranged and
roused to grasp the change. In such manner, general wellbeing pioneers must be prepared
to manage the difficulties of the changing needs of patients inside the public health
framework. Stop et al. (2010) states that leaders in medicinal services delivery frameworks
are faced with the test of actualizing the different changes in social insurance practice and
conveyance framework. The contention raised by these analysts is that these leaders should
grasp a status to actualize the different changes inside the social insurance framework that
made the two open doors and difficulties to them. Hartley and Benington, (2011) assesses
the current patterns in administration, considering, and activity, in their investigation; they
contend that public health leadership is a dynamic reaction that spotlights on grasping the
human services needs of groups. In their contention, authority is a structure that
coordinates the estimations of groups through evaluating the patterns and changing human
services needs of groups as a rule. The two focuses their initiative contention on Warwick 6
C authority structure. The structure, consequently, gives a manual for general wellbeing
pioneers by enabling them to see the changing needs human services needs of groups not as
a weight but rather as a chance to actualize the different changes in the social insurance
conveyance framework that can help in meeting the rising movements in the health needs
of groups. Ham (2003) concentrates on enhancing the execution of health administrations
through compelling clinical health authority inside the general wellbeing. Public health
leaders consequently have the sole obligation regarding guaranteeing quality and
dependable social insurance inside the general human services framework. Change of
execution in the medicinal services framework as a matter of first importance require
powerful initiative that stems from both clinical and the whole general human services
framework as confirmed by Ham (2003). Inside the setting of the general population social
insurance framework, changes in view of thoughts, for example, oversaw rivalry and
incorporated care must be grasped to meet the changing needs of patients inside the human
services condition. Assignment: Your personal Public Health Leadership TheoryAs ed by
Rowitz (2013), public health functions across the association and for this situation, trans-
hierarchical abilities are basic in encouraging powerful change inside the medicinal services
delivery framework. In his point of view, he noticed that public health leaders hone their
public health administration inside a group setting and for this situation, they are entrusted
with a part of approving group esteems that advance the changing needs in health among
groups. These leaders must, in this way, focus on long-lasting discovering that
acknowledges the estimations of public health and elevates approaches to deal with the
changing social insurance needs of groups. Rowitz (2013) gives new knowledge into the
comprehension of changing medicinal services needs of groups and the different authority
abilities that leaders must embrace to cultivate viable social insurance results inside the
setting of public health. They must be pioneers paying little respect to the substances they
look over the span of their work. They should settle on a very much educated choice of
molding the social insurance framework and grasping the human services needs of groups.
Plochg, Klazinga, and Starfield, (2009) note that expert associations and health frameworks

4. never again mirrors the changing social insurance needs of people inside groups. The
development of necessities is caused by the developing number of complex and constantly
sick patients. It is, thus, vital for the key partners to start basic changes aimed at
incorporating the changing needs of patients inside the public health framework. They
continue to take note of that the medicinal health leaders bolstered by wellbeing approach
creators can start programs should go for encouraging powerful health result in groups.
This is done through characterizing and sorting the health needs of groups and arranging
claim to fame spaces around the requirements of the populace in order to guarantee that
the human services framework addresses the issues of the group. Epping-Jordan et al.
(2004) hold that incessant conditions are progressively getting to be public health challenge
for the concerned leaders. It is an essential worry for leaders all through the world. In light
of this larger test, the WHO has proposed a constant care display that goes for growing the
group and approach perspectives to enhance medicinal services and ceaseless states of
people (Epping-Jordan et al., 2004). In an offer to cultivate viable intercession for an
unending condition in public health, Koh and Jacobson (2009) argue that the gigantic test
lies outside the ability to control of any single specialist but instead consolidated exertion
fixated on viable administration and wide societal level changes. The changing human
services needs are in this way because of the rising idea of perpetual health conditions that
confines the limit of the present social insurance framework. Popescu and Predescu, (2016)
in this manner proposes a practical authority and administration in public health that
grasps the need to change the strategies of managing these difficulties. Popescu and
Predescu, (2016) contend that public health leaders ought to be focused on the human
services needs of the populace. Medicinal services leaders should concentrate their
initiative on conveying human services benefits that grasp the different social insurance
challenges realized by the rising incessant health care conditions. The two proposes
important aptitudes and capacities that are expected of public health leaders in fulfilling the
social insurance needs of people within the setup. Taking everything into account, Saleh,
Williams, and Balougan, (2004) hold that the setting of public health requires sound
leadership and management that can empower the public health leader to react to the
changing needs of people. There a few threats that are progressively posturing difficulties to
patients and in this manner causing them to change their social insurance needs. In such
manner, healthcare leadership must encourage viable public health management that can
empower public health leadership reacts proficiently to the changing medicinal services
needs of groups. Reference Epping-Jordan, J. E., Pruitt, S. D., Bengoa, R., & Wagner, E. H.
(2004). Improving the quality of health care for chronic conditions. Quality and safety in
health care, 13(4), 299-305. Ham, C. (2003). Improving the performance of health services:
the role of clinical leadership. The Lancet, 361(9373), 1978-1980. Hartley, J., & Benington, J.
(2011). Recent trends in leadership thinking and action in the public and voluntary service
sectors. London: The King’s Fund. Holt, D. T., Helfrich, C. D., Hall, C. G., & Weiner, B. J. (2010).
Are you ready? How health professionals can comprehensively conceptualize readiness for
change. Journal of general internal medicine, 25, 50-55. Koh, H. K., & Jacobson, M. (2009).
Fostering public health leadership. Journal of public health, 31(2), 199-201. Lukas, C. V.,
Holmes, S. K., Cohen, A. B., Restuccia, J., Cramer, I. E., Shwartz, M., & Charns, M. P. (2007).

5. Assignment: Your personal Public Health Leadership TheoryTransformational change in
health care systems: an organizational model. Health care management review, 32(4), 309-
320. Plochg, T., Klazinga, N. S., & Starfield, B. (2009). Transforming medical professionalism
to fit changing health needs. BMC medicine, 7(1), 64. Popescu, G. H., & Predescu, V. (2016).
The role of leadership in public health. American Journal of Medical Research, 3(1), 273-
273. Rowitz, L. (2013). Public health leadership. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. Saleh, S. S.,
Williams, D., & Balougan, M. (2004). Evaluating the effectiveness of public health leadership
training: the NEPHLI experience. American journal of public health, 94(7). Abstract
[Doctoral Study Title] by [your official name] MS, [university], 20XX BS, [university], 20XX
Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Business Administration Walden University [last month of quarter you plan to
graduate] 20XX Abstract Insert abstract here; it should be no more than one page. Abstract
text must be doublespaced with no paragraph breaks. Describe the overall research
problem being addressed in the first couple of sentences and indicate why it is important
(e.g., who would care if the problem is solved). You can include a general introduction of the
issue in the first sentence, but you need to move to a clear statement of the research
problem being addressed. Identify the purpose and theoretical foundations, if appropriate,
summarize the key research question(s), and briefly describe the overall research design,
methods and data analytic procedures. Identify the key results, 1 or 2 conclusions, and
recommendations that capture the heart of the research. Conclude with a statement on the
implications for positive social change. Here are some form and style tips: (a) Limit the
abstract to one typed page; (b) maintain the scholarly language used throughout the
doctoral study; (c) keep the abstract concise, accurate, and readable; (d) use correct
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and (f) use the full name of any acronym and include the acronym in parentheses. Do not
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sentence, use numerals in the abstract. [Doctoral Study Title] by [your official name] MS,
[university], 20XX BS, [university], 20XX Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of
the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University
[last month of quarter you plan to graduate] 20XX Dedication This is an optional page for a
dedication. If you include a dedication, use regular paragraph spacing as shown here (not
centered, italicized, or otherwise formatted). The acknowledgments should not exceed one
page. Acknowledgments This is an optional page for acknowledgments. It is a nice place to
thank the faculty, family members, and friends who have helped you reach this point in your
academic career. The acknowledgments should not exceed one page. No page number
appears on any of the pages up to this point. If you do not wish to include this page, delete
the heading and the body text. Table of Contents List of Tables
……………………………………………………………………………………………………… iv List of Figures
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….v Section 1:
Foundation of the Study…………………………………………………………………………..1 Background of
the Problem ……………………………………………………………………………….1 Problem Statement