HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP

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 A youth Leader’s perspective.

                                                                                             Aloyce P. Urassa 

Leadership is a very vital aspect of development in any organization or community. Without good leadership, the sense of organization and system management is already lost. In today’s world things are constantly changing hence a need for a coping mechanism that requires innovative and creative minds. Such abilities of innovation and creativity to cope with the diverse world can only be harnessed from the potential within a leader.

Healthcare is one of the very crucial systems running the world today. According to WHO, the building blocks for a health system are service delivery, health workforce, access to essential medicine, health information system, financing, and leadership/governance. Leadership is a cross-cutting component providing the overall basis of policy and regulation of all other building blocks. 

Leadership is  real salient towards healthcare development and achievement of universal health coverage as well as sustainable development goals that calls for improved health services for everyone everywhere. Without strong leadership in healthcare systems, we shall never experience what we envision to be strong and responsive healthcare systems. Strong leadership in health systems will help to drive great outcomes such as quality, affordable and accessible services which are essential for sustainable development goals to be attained. 

Leadership in healthcare systems is one very intrinsic aspects of success to the organisation and its beneficiaries. The kind of leadership which would be really commendable for healthcare systems must be servanthood oriented.

One of the great mistakes most of those responsible to decide about the leadership structure in a health organisation make is to assess a person to take roles basing on external qualities instead of trying their best to asses internal motivation within an individual to lead. Leadership style in healthcare system must a holistic humanistic approach and must give room for mission, vision and core values to be daily lived through providing direction and stability and not letting them remain ritualistic statements. 

To drive positive changes in health systems in Africa we must first change the narratives we have about leadership which is mostly corruptive and inconsistent into a new narrative of leadership that is heart-centered, inclusive, innovative, dynamic, qualitative, interconnected, and interdependent.

References:

The world health report 2000 – Health systems: improving performance. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2000.

Monitoring the building blocks of health systems: a handbook of indicators and their measurement strategies: WHO, 2010. 

Kannan V; Excellence in Leadership- A heart-based approach: Heartfulness Magazine; Vol 6, 2021: https://www.heartfulnessmagazine.com/excellence-in-leadership/ 


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