Healthcare management forum / Canadian College of Health Service Executives = Forum gestion des soins de santé / Collège canadien des directeurs de services de santé
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Healthc Manage Forum · Jan 2021
Ethical health leadership: Lessons from low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19.
We adopt a holistic-micro, meso, macro-approach to health leadership ethics to examine how low- and middle-income countries have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare delivery happens within complex settings in low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries. These settings are riddled with systemic political and economic challenges which, in some instances, make it difficult for health leaders to be ethical. ⋯ Globally, countries can learn from ethical health leadership missteps that occurred during low- and middle-income countries' responses to COVID-19. We discuss the implications of problematic ethics in health leadership on managing pandemics in low- and middle-income countries, using Zimbabwe as an example. We offer suggestions on what can be done to improve ethical health leadership in response to future health crises in both high-income and low- and middle-income nations.