Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access

Abstract

The Contributions of Leadership Practices in Infant Health Improvement in Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia

Alebel Woretaw Asaye*

Infant should have adequate protections like shelter, nutrition, clean water, basic school education, preventive and therapeutic health services. Minimizing death rate and raising their health is one amongst the thought indicators in human development index of countries. Ethiopia particularly Amhara region has one amongst the highest infant death rate. Government of Ethiopia is addressing infant health as policy priority. The experience of these last ten years ensures that child death was improved. The study thought-about effective leadership given by the government of Ethiopia in health sector has contribution on the success and thus the enhancements in child health. The purpose of this study is assessing the contribution of leadership practices on increasing infant health in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia. To appreciate this objective, the study analyzed the contribution of leadership by specializing in leadership practices and performances infant health programs among the region as indicated by common infant health improvement indicators. Each quantitative and qualitative information was used victimization descriptive analysis vogue. A whole of 111 purposively sampled respondents has participated in filling survey type. Specifically, 61 respondents were sampled health sector leaders with 50 from their immediate reporters. The responses from this cluster of respondents were analyzed quantitatively. Interviews and focus cluster discussions supplemented the quantitative info sets. The descriptive result disclosed that effective leadership had contribution on the event of child health within the region. Leaders had basic leadership information and talent that they gained from experience and these have contributed to positive outcomes in enjoying child health programs. The effective leadership practices have contributed to the implementation of health extension programs and to capacitate community by adjunct oversight mechanism. The numerous indicators of effective leadership practices embrace leader’s personal quality, team leadership and effective leadership processes, in operation health sector structure, access of health organizations up to health post, raised health seeking behavior of the community and development partner’s support. The foremost enquiry of this analysis was testing the association of effective leadership practices with the event of child health. With answers to this enquiry and knowledge results of this, study recommends that maintaining the positive improvement of child health within the region depends on leadership development program to form positive leadership practices that settle for the dynamics among the health sector.

Published Date: 2021-12-11; Received Date: 2021-11-20