Public Health Leadership: . - Softcover

Louis Rowitz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763750506 ISBN 13: 9780763750503

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

This thorough revision maintains the same basic structure of the first edition of Public Health Leadership. In five parts, it explores the basic theories and principles of leadership and then describes how they may be applied in the public health setting. Leadership skills and competencies, as well as methods for measuring and evaluating leaders are also thoroughly covered. The final chapter has been expanded to cover the future of public health and global leadership. Four new chapters have been added to the Second Edition: a chapter on the interface between management and leadership, a chapter on systems and complexity leadership concerns, and a chapter on employee development. The final new chapter will explore the transition from traditional leadership roles to the new roles required by a focus on bioterrorism and other disasters. New case studies, interviews, and exercises have also been added. The Second Edition also features new sidebar boxes with quotes from classic and contemporary writers on leadership.

About this title

About the Author

Louis Rowitz, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught for over 40 years. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the school. Before that, Rowitz was a research scientist in the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. As a social epidemiologist, Rowitz was engaged for many years in a number of research activities. He has written over 60 articles, several book chapters, and 5 books. From 1992 to 2012, he was director of the Mid-America Public Health Leadership Institute. He has served as chair of the National Public health Leadership Development Network three times. Rowitz has given numerous leadership workshops all over the United States in the last 25 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763750506
• ISBN 13: 9780763750503
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592