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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

versión On-line ISSN 2071-2936
versión impresa ISSN 2071-2928

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JENKINS, Louis S.; VON PRESSENTIN, Klaus B.; NORTH, Zilla  y  VAN TONDER, Gideon. Strengthening African health systems through outreach and support and values-driven leadership. Afr. j. prim. health care fam. med. (Online) [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.1, pp.1-4. ISSN 2071-2936.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.3043.

Healthcare systems are complex adaptive systems, requiring a change in leadership style, from the traditional model to collaborative, values-driven leadership (VDL). Family physicians are well positioned to facilitate integration and coordination between levels of care, across specialties and within teams, in partnership with local and district management team members. This short report describes a leadership innovation experience in a rural South African district, where a VDL course was introduced in a district health context to build on a strong tradition of relationship-centred outreach and support aimed at creating a learning health system. The authors reflect on the contribution of family physicians to strengthen team-based capacity building, care coordination and a learning culture aimed at quality improvement from the perspectives of the regional and district hospital environments. A values-based leadership style will enable family physicians to strengthen team-relationships and create organisational environments, which support shared learning and quality improvement approaches. Ultimately this approach should lead to improved health systems.

Palabras clave : Leadership; values; learning culture; family medicine; family physicians; outreach and support; healthcare teams; health systems.

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