Systems leadership in practice: thematic insights from three public health case studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

'Systems leadership' has emerged as a key concept in global public health alongside such related concepts as 'systems thinking' and 'whole systems approaches.' It is an approach that is well suited to issues that require collective action, where no single organisation can control the outcomes. While there is a growing literature on the theory of systems leadership in a number of fields, there remains a lack of published empirical studies of public health systems leadership for professionals to learn from. The aim of the current project was to conduct cases studies in UK public health to provide empirical evidence on the nature of effective systems leadership practice.

Methods

Three system leadership case studies were identified in the key domains of public health:

SUBMITTER: Bigland C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673088 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature