Abstract
Local health department directors’ intent on getting their organizations ready for accreditation must embrace the blurring of leader/follower lines and create an accreditation readiness team fueled not by traditional leader or follower roles but by teamship.
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PUBLIC HEALTHThe journey toward voluntary public health accreditation readiness in local health departments: leadership and followership theories in action
The Institute of Medicine’s 2002 report “The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century” made several recommendations for improving and building capacity of local public health agencies, including increased training for public health leaders and the creation of an accreditation system [1]
Leadership can be analyzed according to leadership theories, which address the traits of leaders, the leaders’ ability to transform the people and systems with whom they work, or by the leader’s adjustment to follower needs
Summary
The journey toward voluntary public health accreditation readiness in local health departments: leadership and followership theories in action.
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