Question

Offer an example of a real organizational issue when a manager needs supportive evidence to be successful in a specific function (cancer case) in the Epidemiology role in healthcare functions of management. Offer explanation of all types of evidence you, as that manager, would need to make good decisions.  

Answer 1

A strategy for successful care coordination includes an understanding and implementation of the core competencies for all healthcare professionals as described by the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2003) to include: 1) patient-centered care, 2) teamwork and collaboration, 3) evidence-based practice, 4) quality improvement ... Most important public health problems and concerns

Alcohol-related harms.

Food safety.

Healthcare-associated infections.

Heart disease and stroke.

HIV.

Motor vehicle injury.

Nutrition, physical activity and obesity.

Prescription drug overdose.

Ensuring Availability of Critical Strategic Epidemiologic Information:

Arguably, the most important single contribution that public health makes to strengthening health systems is provision of relevant and scientifically valid epidemiologic data upon which to base decisions and policies affecting all aspects of the larger health system. Achieving positive health outcomes is not just about providing care to individuals in order to treat existing illness; it is also about providing the right kind of care to the right people in the right way at the right time. Scientific evidence should drive decisions regarding how to formulate appropriate health policy, how to design and implement safe and effective interventions, and where and how to invest human and financial resources.

Strengthening Key Public Health Institutions and Infrastructure:

Given the central role that strategic epidemiologic information plays in the effective functioning of health systems, a major contribution that public health makes to HSS lies in building and enhancing the systems needed to generate those data as well as supporting the entities responsible for managing those systems and interpreting the data they generate.

Th aim of good management is to provide services to the community in an :

appropriate, effi cient, equitable, and sustainable manner. Th is can only be

achieved if key resources for service provision, including human resources,

finances, hardware and process aspects of care delivery are brought together at the point of service delivery and are carefully synchronized.

Managers ensure that the available resources are well organized and applied to produce the best results. In the resource constrained and diffi cult environments of many low – to middle-income countries, a manager must also be a leader to achieve optimum results.