Health Leadership Model Design: in Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Health and Treatment Services

Subject Areas : Medical bookkeeping and information

Farideh Beyranvand ¹ , Ahmad Vadadi ² , Alireza Amir Kabiri , ³ , Zahra Boroumand ⁴

1 - Department of Public Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Public Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Public Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Public Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-10-07 Accepted : 2023-11-19 Published : 2023-12-22

Keywords: Situation, health leadership, followers,

Abstract :

Introduction: Increasing the health of employees is one of the ways to deal with the problems of organizations, which organizations are searching and exploring this issue. Health leadership is one of the key points of employee health and development. The people who are placed in this position can be the source of many changes, so understanding health leadership in a complex environment with the orientation of maintaining the culture around the physical and mental health of employees is very important. Since a specific model for health leadership has not been formulated so far, the main goal of this research is to share an overview of ideation, conceptualization of the health leadership model with a mixed method of exploratory, qualitative analysis of the theme for employee health.Methods: The statistical population of this research was key and informed experts and the University of Medical Sciences of Health and Medical Services of Lorestan province. Sampling has been continued and compiled until the identification and description of dimensions and elements with a qualitative approach and with the qualitative method of content analysis and theoretical saturation. The data was collected through written interviews with the selection of 16 experts and using a semi-structured interview tool. To calculate reliability, coding was done by reading the interviews line by line manually in two stages. Finally, it was analyzed with the theme network analysis and the three-step coding method, and the effect on the dimensions and elements of the main theme of the organizer were categorized, summarized and formed.Results: After three steps, coding and analysis of interview data, 54 basic themes were extracted, 36 organizing themes and finally 6 inclusive themes were identified and extracted. The empirical findings of this research, based on the results, show that health leadership increases the well-being and physical health of employees, and the benefits of interventions preserve the human resources of organizations. The extracted model with dimensions and key elements of the leader, position and followers, mechanism, antecedents and consequences with theme categories was presented as a proposed health leadership model to leaders and future research for employee health.Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that a set of identified individual and organizational behaviors can create a conceptualization model of health leadership that is uniquely able to guide managers and policy makers towards health and well-being outcomes and create an opportunity that It leads to the realization of a new performance platform for the group under the leadership of the future health of organizations. This study, for the first time in Iran, has highlighted the need to provide a topic analysis for employee health as a major part of human capital.

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