Global Health Leadership and Management or From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones

Global Health Leadership and Management

Author: Clarence E Pearson

Written by an international panel of distinguished global health experts, this book distills valuable lessons from a wide variety of successful health programs that have been implemented around the world. Global Health Leadership and Management gives practical suggestions for enhancing and developing the essential skills of leadership, management, communication, and project planning for health care leaders. The book will assist health leaders to work well within their communities and effectively plan, direct, implement, and evaluate effective programs and activities. Global Health Leadership and Management outlines and describes such core competencies as

• Identifying challenges and developing and managing policy

• Developing strategies, pathways, and solutions

• Creating networks and partnerships and planning for change

• Learning from experience to build a generation of leaders

• Leading and managing teams by recognizing and celebrating success

 

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Reviewer: Ross M. Mullner, PhD, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book highlights the work of the Global Health Council (GHC), the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. It primarily discusses management and healthcare issues occurring in developing countries.
Purpose: The emphasis of this book is on how to make a global approach to health result in improvements of the health of poor people in economically poor countries. One of its main arguments is that the lack of management skills is the single most important barrier to improving health throughout the world.
Audience: This book is written for professionals in public health, policymakers, and politicians. The book brings together an impressive group of authors. They include, for example, David Rockefeller, who writes the foreword, and Kofi Annan, who writes the epilogue.
Features: This edited book contains 17 chapters. The chapters are divided into five areas: 1) identifying challenges and developing and managing policy; 2) developing strategies, new pathways, and solutions; 3) creating networks and partnerships and planning change from within; 4) learning from experience and building a generation of leaders; and 5) leading and managing teams while recognizing and celebrating success.
Assessment: This book is well written, interesting, and an enjoyable and easy read. Three chapters are particularly interesting: William Novelli's "Managing Health, Health Care and Aging," Susan Dentzer's "HIV/AIDS: Lessons from Brazil," and Dao De Ching's "Leading for Success."

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: The Life Experiences of Fifty Professional African American Women

Author: Kathleen F F Slevin

"Powerful and very important."-John Sibley Butler, University of Texas, Austin

"A book that speaks to all of us, across lines of race and gender."-Melvin P. Sikes

"This book will be informative and rewarding reading for students and professors alike."—Gender and Society

Whether in popular culture, academic research, or public consciousness, African American women are often defined by their presumed poverty or lack of education. In this unique antidote to public perception, Kathleen F. Slevin and C. Ray Wingrove focus on the experiences of an unusual group of pioneers: one of the first generations of African American women to work as white-collar professionals, retire in considerable comfort, and remain actively and fruitfully involved, as older women, in their respective communities.

Through the voices of these women, we come to understand the impact of social systems on individual lives and to appreciate how the legacies provided these women by their families, teachers, churches, and communities endowed them with the survival tools needed to succeed, despite the prejudice and "stumbling blocks" they encountered along the way. Slevin and Wingrove explore how the lessons of childhood-choosing battles, avoiding hurtful Whites, striving for economic independence, and projecting self-confidence and racial pride-translate to adulthood as they recount the ups and downs of being successful African American women.

Kathleen F. Slevin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. C. Ray Wingrove is Professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond.

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Pioneers in the work world, the women featured here "are models for young women of today who are just beginning the journey they have completed." Now retired, they share their stories of survival and resistance with the authors, both sociology professors. The issues they consider include church, education, and the world of work.

What People Are Saying

Melvin P. Sikes
A book that speaks to all of us, across lines of race and gender.

John Sibley Butler
Powerful and very important.
—John Sibley Butler, University of Texas, Austin

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Survival and Resistance: Early Lessons in the Family	11
2	Survival and Resistance: Lessons in the Community	33
3	The Church: Sacred and Secular Entwined	49
4	Education: Passport to a Better Life	65
5	The World of Work: Making It the Hard Way	87
6	Free at Last: Surviving and Thriving in Retirement	123
7	Pioneer Role Models	151
Appendix	Researchers' Comments on the Study	161
	Notes	171
	Index	181
	About the Authors	187