Examining clinical leadership in Kenyan public hospitals through the distributed leadership lens.

ABSTRACT: Clinical leadership is recognized as a crucial element in health system strengthening and health policy globally yet it has received relatively little attention in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Moreover, analyses of clinical leadership tend to focus on senior-level individual leaders, overlooking a wider constellation of middle-level leaders delivering health care in practice in a way affected by their health care context. Using the theoretical lens of 'distributed leadership', this article examines how middle-level leadership is practised and affected by context in Kenyan county hospitals, providing insights relevant to health care in other LMICs. The article is based on empirical qualitative case studies of clinical departmental leadership in two Kenyan public hospitals, drawi

SUBMITTER: Nzinga J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6037084 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature