COURSE: Leadership in health promotion: Complexity, innovation and closing the gap of implementation
Publisher/Organizer: Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+), in collaboration with La Trobe University, School of Public Health and with the World Health Organization
Publication date: 17-21 August 2009
Language: English
Overview
“Intersectoral action on health is essential for health equity. Yet intersectoral action is more often talked about than practised. effective intersectoral action has a particular set of preconditions. The collaborators, coming from different organizations, need to identify a commonality of interest, agree on a specific set of actions and invest a definite set of resources. These three conditions do not arise spontaneously; they are made to happen only with effective leadership.
Leaders are born with personality traits, but they can develop a range of skills to be more effective. A leadership team will be more effective if it draws upon the range of strengths from the different leadership types. Leaders in Health Promotion have to function efficiently across different health issues. And health promotion practitioners, as advocates for health equity, need to explore leadership in all its forms: personal leadership development, leadership at team level, leadership at the agency level, leadership at the community level and leadership at the professional level. …”
This course explores issues of complexity, communication and innovation in health promotion leadership and provides practitioners with an opportunity to share experiences. On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Objectives
This course explores issues of complexity, communication and innovation in health promotion leadership and provides practitioners with an opportunity to share experiences. On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- know the principles of the systems approach and able to use this approach to establish health promotion in a complex environment,
- understand different types of leaders and their contexts and know how to draw on leadership styles for more impact,
- can analyze the legal and political context and know how to influence the decision making process in policy development,
- appreciate how communication and negotiation is critical for effective implementation process,
- know how to implement best practice and quality assurance in health promotion,
- use more innovative approaches to implement health promotion,
- critically reflect and learn from case studies of successes and failures.