A new public educative leadership?

New Challenges for Senior Leadership Enhancement for Improved Public Management

Leadership in Public Health: New Competencies for the Future

In Contemporary Public Health, Keck, Scutchfield, and Holsinger call for changes in vision among those leading the evolution of healthcare from individualistic to community-wide approaches to improve health status (1). Having new vision is necessary but not sufficient; new leadership skills are also needed in order to implement and sustain change. This article summarizes our thoughts about new ...

Fostering public health leadership.

The crescendo of seemingly intractable threats to our global well-being has prompted a call for more leaders in public health. Indeed, many highly motivated and well-intentioned individuals seem poised to respond. But as aspiring public health leaders prepare for action, there is a marked dearth of proven and tested teachings, models and frameworks to guide them. With relatively little public h...

Developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach

Purpose: Citizen-centered government agencies are a prototype of new public service approach which, in effect, calls for citizenship orientation of state-owned agencies. This study aimes at developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach.  Methodology: To realize this purpose, the main themes of the main subject of the study were identified u...

Perceived Relevance of Educative Information on Public (Skin) Health: A Cross-sectional Questionnaire Survey

OBJECTIVES Unprotected leisure time exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun or artificial tanning beds is the most important environmental risk factor for melanoma, a malignant skin cancer with increasing incidences over the past decades. The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of skin health information provided by several sources and different publishing issues on knowled...