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Developing Tomorrow's Integrated Community Health Systems: A Leadership Challenge for Public Health and Primary Care
Author(s) -
Welton William E.,
Kantner Theodore A.,
Katz Sheila Moriber
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.00054
Subject(s) - accountability , public relations , health care , public health , community health , hrhis , population health , business , health policy , political science , nursing , medicine , law
As the nation's health system moves away from earlier models to one grounded in population health and market‐based systems of care, new challenges arise for public health professionals, primary care practitioners, health plan and institutional managers, and community leaders. Among the challenges are the need to develop creative concepts of organization and accountability and to assure that dynamic, system‐oriented structures support the new kind of leadership that is required. Developing tomorrow's integrated community health systems will challenge the leadership skills and integrative abilities of public health professionals, primary care practitioners, and managers. These leaders and their new organizations must, in turn, assume increased accountability for improving community health.