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The Namibian government through the Ministry of Health and Social Services has been working to improve the health status of its population. Considering the change in disease burden, availability of resources and collaboration between stakeholders, the goal is to make health service upgrades to best serve the population at large. Health service upgrades require systematic joining of strategies to improve the quality of care provided by public healthcare institutions. The introduction of clinical governance will allow for the establishment of necessary structures to implement standards and ensuring that they are met. Key areas addressed by clinical governance are strategic planning,…

With the rise of chronic diseases and the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, new challenges have been generated in the healthcare industry. Electronic health (e-health) is considered to be one of the stratagems, identified to overcome the challenges and to raise the standard of the medical system (Gagnon et al., 2016). Researchers like Severinsen et al. (2019), stated that implementing an e-health system, could improve many aspects of medical practices, and make the healthcare system safer, and more efficient. However, several studies have raised concerns regarding the adoption of e-health systems, especially among healthcare providers. Abdekhoda et al. (2016)…

The success of leaders and organizational leadership function, behavior, and practices are determined by a variety of internal and external organizational factors. Gender differences in leadership are found to have implications for organizational effectiveness on a theoretical level. However, evidence to investigate the relationship between gender differences in leadership and organizational effectiveness is scanty.  As a result, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of gender differences in leadership roles on the organizational effectiveness of health service organizations in Ethiopia to address the empirical data gap. Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimension Theoretical Framework was used in…

The paper examines the extent to which operational and strategic planning skills of managers affect the quality of healthcare outputs. The healthcare output measurables include mortality and morbity rates. Poor healthcare output quality translates to high morbidity and mortality rates. Managers being designers of organizational structures and developers of policies and procedures and processes, the depth and width of their knowledge on the subject may affect the outcomes either positively or negatively. From a study of five, it is reasonable to generalise that the management skills affect the healthcare output quality. Managers with good operational and strategic plannings skills can…