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Full-Range Public Health Leadership, Part 2: Qualitative Analysis And Synthesis, Erik L. Carlton, James W. Holsinger Jr., Martha C. Riddell, Heather Bush

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

Public health leadership is an important topic in the era of U.S. health reform, population health innovation, and health system transformation. This study utilized the full-range leadership model in order to examine the public health leadership. We sought to understand local public health leadership from the perspective of local health department leaders and those who work with and for them. Public health leadership was explored through interviews and focus groups with directors (n = 4) and staff (n = 33) from local health departments. Qualitative analytic methods included reflexive journals, code-recode procedures, and member checking, with analysis facilitated …

Full-Range Public Health Leadership, Part 1: Quantitative Analysis, Erik L. Carlton, James W. Holsinger Jr., Martha Riddell, Heather M. Bush

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Workforce and leadership development are central to the future of public health. However, public health has been slow to translate and apply leadership models from other professions and to incorporate local perspectives in understanding public health leadership.

PURPOSE: This study utilized the full-range leadership model in order to examine public health leadership. Specifically, it sought to measure leadership styles among local health department directors and to understand the context of leadership in local health departments.

METHODS: Leadership styles among local health department directors (n = 13) were examined using survey methodology. Quantitative analysis methods included descriptive statistics, boxplots, …