In a situation where a leader has to look up to the employee while ensuring his or her reputation is not put to the wall, is something that requires four personal resource skills— physical , emotional, spiritual and most importantly mental construction in self-guidance of becoming successful at what you do. This guides in […]
Working in healthcare settings requires collaborative work environment where employees are safe to offer ideas for service efficiency. Secondly, those managers who can deliver professional presentations, process and transmit information, and engage in positive feedback are those with effective management skills. Individuals and leader(s) within team environment must understand and act in which trust is […]
At the outset, it is good to understand the importance of the trends in world healthcare. The advocates of healthcare improvement, quality and equality of care have come far away from home. This is because there is no doubt the trends in healthcare industry is evolving– thanks to policy changes, organizational shifting from public to […]
The one thing public health mission and vision statements have in common is that most public health organizations aligned their mission statement to define the purpose of their organization’s existence. For example, The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) mission statement (n.d.) reads as, “improve the health of the public and achieve equity in health status.” […]
Guinea Worm (GW) disease, also known as Dracunculiasis, is an infection that is caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis. GW disease affects poor communities in parts of Africa that do not have safe drinking water. Individuals become infected with the GW when drinking water from a pond or stagnant water that contains water fleas. These […]
Public health intervention deals with the general concept of public health as more than just a system of theories and risk-interventional approaches. Bellah et al. (1991) suggested that we simply cannot separate how and why we approach public health concerns in many ways– including the use of Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DIT). This is because […]
The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) is very fascinating in its tenets for so many reasons and beneficial factors. Its inception was very familiar from the beginning– since the model was initially aimed at associating beliefs, behaviors, actions and psychological reactions. The basic concept that differentiates the TRA from other theories is how its model […]
Social network analysis is a potentially useful reflective tool for public health practitioners to assess the overall composition of their networks; strengthen collaborations with other community partners, and evaluate network function. One of the natures of the relationship among individuals, their environments and health behaviors is the behavior exercise. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is identified as a comprehensive model for behavior exercise. In the TTM, […]
Morbidity and mortality are broad subjects consisting of many parts that make the whole. As survival rates improve with modernization and populations age, mortality measures do not give an adequate picture of a population’s health status. Indicators of morbidity such as the prevalence of chronic diseases and disabilities become more important (John Hopkins School of […]
According to the research approach, Bradbury-Jones, et al. (2014) proposed a five-point typology on the levels of theoretical visibility, testing this against a range of published research from five key international health, medicine, and social science journals. The typology captures a range of visibility–from seemingly absent-through to highly visible and applied throughout. There was a […]
