Chapter 7
Empowering Public Health Workers
Learning Objectives
- Understand the need for a leader to appreciate the culture of public health employees in order to make change occur
- Acknowledge the need to instill trust in public health employees before attempting change
- Become aware of the opportunities available to improve community health through collaboration among the major players in the delivery of health care services in our country
- Identify the role of the public health leader and the empowered worker in improving quality in the health care system
There is something very different about working in a public health agency. Such an agency produces services whose proper delivery is dependent on the skill levels of the agency's public health ...
