Leadership Approaches to Reducing Healthcare Disparities in Urban Areas
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Several Leadership, Findings Highlight, Collaboration, Health EquityAbstract
Introduction: Affecting the health of all of us, particularly in urban areas, is the disparity with which health care is delivered. This leads to worsened health outcomes for disadvantaged and underserved populations. However Leadership strategies to address healthcare disparities in urban environments. One unresolved issue, good leadership has emerged as one of the keys to solving this problem.
Methods: To view the original text. publications. Visit the article page among urban underserved populations. Relevant numbers were included in peer-reviewed journals and other required We conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify and describe leadership antiracist approaches that have been implemented to eliminate healthcare inequities
Results: Community engagement, cultural competence, collaboration, and advocacy, were discovered to be successful in bridging healthcare gaps in urban centers. Such methods have been applied to break down systemic barriers, enhance care accessibility, Multiple leadership styles, such as transformational leadership,
Conclusions: in urban areas, collaboration and advocacy must also fundamentally be part of the larger conversation. strategies like community engagement and cultural competency in order to reduce healthcare disparities. To further promote health equity results support the need for inclusive and transformative leadership in the health service response to health transition, including urban health.
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