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For this Project Assignment, think about common trends in public health leadership, or critical areas of need for leadership in the field. Prepare a literature review of scholarly articles related to your topic. This review should contain a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed or scholarly resources. Additionally, based on your conducted review of the current literature, create a problem statement that addresses identified gaps while incorporating implications for positive social change. Located within the Learning Resources for the week, you may find the information from Walden’s Online Writing Center helpful for your completion of the assignment.

  • For this Project Assignment, think about common trends in public health leadership, or critical areas of need for leadership in the field.
  • Prepare a literature review of scholarly articles related to your topic in public health leadership. This review should contain a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed or scholarly resources.
  • Based on what you find in the current public health leadership literature, Create a problem statement, (Learn how to write a good one) It must addresses:
    • Identified gaps while incorporating implications for positive social change.
    • Located within the Learning Resources for the week, you may find the information from Walden’s Online Writing Center helpful for your completion of the assignment.

Organize the project in the following manner. Each section should be represented for a comprehensive overview.

Literature Review and Problem Statement (5–7 pages):

The Literature Review section should be written in the narrative form integrating concepts from the articles you find. The section should include:

  • A synthesis of a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed, scholarly resources that give the reader a good overview of the issue. The section should show the reader common trends in public health leadership, or critical areas of need for leadership in the field
  • A description of theoretical gaps in the research area – Based on the research you just did in leadership, what seems to be missing (Theoretical gaps)?
  • Problem Statement should include:
    • An explanation of the specific problem that addresses identified gaps within the literature – If you are not sure of what a problem statement should include look it up. I’ll be looking for good comprehensive statements
    • An explanation of how your problem statement incorporates implications for positive social change – As students at Walden, “We” are preparing to become agents of social change, based on your leadership topic, the research you just did and the gaps you found how would you be a social agent for change?

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Running Head: PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP-LITERATURE REVIEW

Public Health Leadership-Literature Review
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Introduction
Public health is generally about protecting the health and wellbeing of communities as
well as improving the communities through disease prevention, education, and public policy
development (Ham, 2003). Public health leadership is, therefore, one of the most critical areas in
public health since it helps in fostering community health by promoting practices aimed at
enhancing public health. There are several common trends in public health leadership today, and
healthy public leaders must be well prepared to deal with issues of the public within any given
context. Developing excellent leadership skills is therefore vital in dealing with some common
trends that are affecting public health today (Ham, 2003).
Public health leaders have an important role to play considering the current and future
changes in the field of health care. The changes create opportunities and challenges to public
health leaders and may impact either positively or negatively in the future health of communities.
Some of the common trends that create challenges to public health leaders include aging of the
population, the changing healthcare needs of individuals, changing patterns in the racial
composition with varied healthcare needs, changes in healthcare delivery systems, evolving
needs in public health workforce, and an explosion of emerging healthcare technologies (Ham,
2003). This literature review will, therefore, focus on evaluating public health leadership in
regards to the changing healthcare needs of individuals
Problem statement
The healthcare delivery system has undergone a lot of changes, and the public health
leaders are required to champion the changes by integrating such changes within the context of
public leadership. These changes may not favor public health leaders since some changes are

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centered on systems and technology that public health leaders may not be able to have the
required skills and expertise to foster or adopt within the public health system. The changes in
the delivery system are aimed at taking and meeting the changing healthcare ne...


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