Management Education in Public Health: Further Considerations Comment on "Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health"

Darr, Kurt

doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2015.158

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“…The participants explained that these approaches contrasted the other leadership development programs they had attended, which were experienced as fragmented. These statements are supported by several previous studies, which emphasize the importance of changing the pedagogical approaches to leadership development, based on the increased complexity in healthcare [ 2 , 3 , 12 , 14 , 15 ]. This study presents new knowledge about alternative approaches, which were experienced to meet the complexity.…”

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“…Traditionally, HMMs have primarily focused on more visible, clinical tasks and therefore their leadership actions were in addition to, and often overshadowed by, their clinical workload [ 2 , 12 , 13 ]. It was expected that leadership would be self-taught, learned while working [ 14 ]. HMMs have possessed a clinical background, with limited capacity and capability for leadership, both regarding qualifications, experience, and support [ 2 ].…”

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“…HMMs have possessed a clinical background, with limited capacity and capability for leadership, both regarding qualifications, experience, and support [ 2 ]. Several studies clarify that it is necessary to improve leadership education in healthcare and to develop HMMs` capacity [ 2 , 3 , 12 , 14 , 15 ].…”

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Healthcare middle managers` experiences developing leadership capacity and capability in a public funded learning network

Hartviksen

Sjølie

Aspfors

et al. 2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundHealthcare middle managers (HMMs) have, as the leaders closest to clinical practice, a crucial position in healthcare today. There is broad knowledge about the demands on HMMs’ capacity, their situation in general, and the challenges this presents for the improvement of healthcare quality. There is less knowledge about how to facilitate HMMs` capacity and capability with regard to their leadership and how to handle this in a complex context. The purpose of this study was to identify and discuss the facilitation of HMMs’ development of capacity and capability for leadership.MethodA critical hermeneutic design was chosen. Data were collected through three focus group interviews with Norwegian HMMs who participated in a learning network. A user representative (from among the recipients of public healthcare), involved in the same learning network, participated in all three interviews. A qualitative interpretive approach guided the analysis.ResultsThe results show two main themes: 1. Trusted interaction despite organizational and structural frames and 2. Knowledgeable understanding of a complex context.ConclusionThis learning network facilitated HMMs` development of capacity and capability for leadership. The development included a combination of understanding the complex context, knowledge, trust, and confidence. The approaches in the learning network were based on transformative learning, coherence, reflection, discussion, repetition, knowledge sharing, and short lectures. These approaches can be recommended for the facilitation and support of HMMs.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12913-018-3259-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Healthcare middle managers` experiences developing leadership capacity and capability in a public funded learning network

Hartviksen

Sjølie

Aspfors

et al. 2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Health management can be further differentiated into top-level management in charge of policy, middle management with supervisory role and operations management responsible for health service delivery [ 6 ]. Health leadership and management roles, although in theory diverse, in reality often co-occur and are commonly assumed by clinicians whose training needs are largely unmet at both pre-service and in-service levels [ 7 – 9 ]. Healthcare professionals reported a number of challenges in relation to health leadership and management training, including lack of time, resources, access to experts or perceived relevance [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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The role of eLearning in health management and leadership capacity building in health system: a systematic review

2018

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BackgroundHealth leadership and management are essential for ensuring resilient health systems. Relevant training opportunities are often scarce, and the use of digital education could help address this gap. Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of eLearning for healthcare leadership and management capacity building.MethodsWe performed a systematic review on the effectiveness of eLearning for health leadership and management training. We also reviewed literature on relevant competencies and training programmes. We conceptualise the role of health leadership and management capacity building in health system strengthening and explore the use of eLearning in this area.ResultsNo evidence was found on the effectiveness of eLearning for health leadership and management capacity guiding. Evidence on health leadership and management education effectiveness in general is scarce and descriptive and reports learning outcomes. We explore how various forms of eLearning can help meet specific requirements of health leadership and management training.ConclusionsLiterature on the effectiveness of health leadership and management education is scarce. The use of eLearning could support this type of training by making it more accessible and tailored. Future research should be carried out in diverse settings, assume experimental designs, evaluate the use of information technology and report health system outcomes.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12960-018-0305-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The languages were chosen based on the reviewers’ common linguistic platform. The time limitation was chosen due to the rapidly changing complexity of the last decades in industrialized countries’ healthcare, including an increased focus on user involvement, interdisciplinarity, and interdepartmental cooperation [21–25, 34–36, 51–58]. Step 1 expanded the list of relevant search terms.…”

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Healthcare middle managers’ experiences of developing capacity and capability: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

Hartviksen

Aspfors

Uhrenfeldt

2019

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Healthcare middle managers play a central role in reducing harm, improving patient safety, and strengthening the quality of healthcare. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the present knowledge and critically discuss how healthcare middle managers experienced to develop the capacity and capability for leadership in a healthcare system characterized by high complexity. Methods This comprehensive systematic review provided evidence of healthcare middle managers’ experiences in developing the capacity and capability for leadership in public healthcare. The three-step literature search was based on six databases and led by a PICo question. The review had a critical hermeneutic perspective and was based on an a priori published, protocol. The methods were inspired by the Joanna Briggs Institute and techniques from Kvale and Brinkmann. The results were illustrated by effect size, inspired by Sandelowski and Barroso. Results Twenty-three studies from four continents and multiple contexts (hospitals and municipal healthcare) published from January 2005–February 2019 were included. Based on experiences from 482 healthcare middle managers, 2 main themes, each with 2 subthemes, were identified, and from these, a meta-synthesis was developed: Healthcare middle managers develop capacity and capability through personal development processes empowered by context. The main themes included the following: 1. personal development of capacity and capability and 2. a need for contextual support. From a critical hermeneutic perspective, contrasts were revealed between how healthcare middle managers experienced the development of their capacity and capability and what they experienced as their typical work situation. Conclusions This review provides evidence of the need for a changed approach in healthcare in relation to criticisms of present organizational structures and management methods and suggestions for how to strengthen healthcare middle managers’ capacity and capability for leadership in a healthcare system characterized by high complexity. Evidence of how leadership development affected the clinical context and, thus, the quality of healthcare was found to be a field requiring further research. PROSPERO registration number CRD42018084670

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Management Education in Public Health: Further Considerations Comment on "Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health"

Cited by 6 publications

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Healthcare middle managers` experiences developing leadership capacity and capability in a public funded learning network

Healthcare middle managers` experiences developing leadership capacity and capability in a public funded learning network

The role of eLearning in health management and leadership capacity building in health system: a systematic review

Healthcare middle managers’ experiences of developing capacity and capability: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

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