The article “Priorities and challenges for health leadership and workforce management globally: a rapid review” begins by noting the complex and dynamic nature of health systems. According to the article, such challenges arise from the divergence of healthcare contexts and service levels. In this regard, the researchers argue that the capabilities required of health leaders and managers to address these emerging challenges are not well understood. To support this assumption, the researchers refer to the limitation of past studies that, in their opinions, have only provided country-specific data while ignoring the importance of diverse settings and health systems. The researchers determined several challenges emerging in modern health care settings and grouped them into system context, organizational context, and in the context of an individual healthcare manager (Figueroa et al., 2017). These findings are consistent with existing literature on global challenges facing health management, often associated with political, technological, societal, and economic changes. Thus, I find the ideas presented in the article relevant in modern healthcare environments.
The article was published in BMC Health Services Research, a journal website that publishes research in health services. The information provided in the paper is a review of previous studies. I find the information provided in the article to be valid and reliable. Essentially, all articles published in BMC Health Services Research are peer-reviewed, which means that they have undergone rigorous scrutiny by several scholars to ascertain their quality. Additionally, the studies utilized in the article were obtained from three major public health and health care databases, including Pubmed, MEDLINE®, and Scopus. According to the researchers, these databases were chosen for their relevance to the review’s subject matter and breadth of content. Furthermore, the researchers used PRISMA associated with enhanced systematic review reporting accuracy and provide significant clarity about the choice of articles for systematic reviews (Figueroa et al., 2019). Based on these three reasons, it can be concluded that the information provided in the article is valid and reliable.
The information provided in the article may not be relevant in other contexts, for example, health systems in regions such as Africa or Asia. Notably, the article focused on studies based on the Anglo-American context and health systems (Figueroa et al., 2017). These regions have different health systems whereby underdeveloped and understaffed health systems characterize the former regions while the latter regions have more advanced health systems. As such, the article’s claim that its focus was on international context may be a source of confusion.
The information from the article can be applied in business contexts. In consideration is the article’s claim that under the productivity framework, health system and service administrators are confronted with instances of inefficient human and technological resource distribution, resulting in a disparity between demand and supply. This finding calls for business leaders to be creative and adaptive in their HRM practices. For example, businesses can be successful and effective by utilizing centralization working processes, where individuals are educated to become specialists at one specific aspect of a job to achieve efficiency.
In conclusion, I agree with the article’s findings regarding the challenges facing modern health systems. In my opinion, healthcare leaders should anticipate dozens of new challenges in the following decades, including legislative and policy shifts, medical and technical advances, financing, education, and ethical concerns. As such, healthcare leaders must understand that the convergence of these challenges will rapidly consume resources for clinical research (time and money), facility maintenance, infrastructure redesign, and organizational training. Solving these problems will require adaptive leaders who can influence policy change, as suggested by the article
Reference
Figueroa, C. A., Harrison, R., Chauhan, A., & Meyer, L. (2019). Priorities and challenges for health leadership and workforce management globally: A rapid review. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), 1-11. Web.