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Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health
Compassion—the awareness of suffering coupled with the desire to relieve that suffering—is an evolved human capacity that offers significant benefits for individuals and organizations. While the relief of suffering is central to tropical medicine and global health, compassion is more often assumed t...
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The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34634766 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0832 |
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author | Harrel, Evan Berland, Laura Jacobson, Julie Addiss, David G. |
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description | Compassion—the awareness of suffering coupled with the desire to relieve that suffering—is an evolved human capacity that offers significant benefits for individuals and organizations. While the relief of suffering is central to tropical medicine and global health, compassion is more often assumed than explicit. Global health leaders participating in a compassionate leadership program recently reported that the most common personal barriers to compassionate leadership include inability to regulate workload, perfectionism, and lack of self-compassion; while the most common external challenges include excessive work-related demands, the legacy of colonialism, and the lack of knowledge on how to lead with compassion. These barriers can be surmounted. Within organizations, leaders are the primary shapers of compassionate cultures. Now is the time to bring our core compassionate values to bear in addressing the “unfinished business” of ensuring global health equity and deconstructing colonialist structures in global health and tropical medicine. Compassionate leadership offers us tools to complete this unfinished business. |
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spelling | pubmed-86413552021-12-10 Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Harrel, Evan Berland, Laura Jacobson, Julie Addiss, David G. Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Pieces Compassion—the awareness of suffering coupled with the desire to relieve that suffering—is an evolved human capacity that offers significant benefits for individuals and organizations. While the relief of suffering is central to tropical medicine and global health, compassion is more often assumed than explicit. Global health leaders participating in a compassionate leadership program recently reported that the most common personal barriers to compassionate leadership include inability to regulate workload, perfectionism, and lack of self-compassion; while the most common external challenges include excessive work-related demands, the legacy of colonialism, and the lack of knowledge on how to lead with compassion. These barriers can be surmounted. Within organizations, leaders are the primary shapers of compassionate cultures. Now is the time to bring our core compassionate values to bear in addressing the “unfinished business” of ensuring global health equity and deconstructing colonialist structures in global health and tropical medicine. Compassionate leadership offers us tools to complete this unfinished business. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021-12 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8641355/ /pubmed/34634766 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0832 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Pieces Harrel, Evan Berland, Laura Jacobson, Julie Addiss, David G. Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title | Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title_full | Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title_fullStr | Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title_short | Compassionate Leadership: Essential for the Future of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
title_sort | compassionate leadership: essential for the future of tropical medicine and global health |
topic | Perspective Pieces |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34634766 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0832 |
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