Publications by authors named "Elle Leask"

Background: Staff in health systems everywhere have exhibited flexibility and a capacity for improvisations during, and in response to, the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking to other examples of such resilient behaviours outside of those induced by the pandemic is instructive for those involved with researching or understanding change, or making health systems improvements.

Methods: Here, we synthesise and then assess the value of eight case studies of in situ resilient performance from Canada, Sweden, Japan, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Norway, the United States and Brazil.

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Article Synopsis
  • * The review analyzed 33,737 publications, ultimately including 205 studies that explored various strategies to limit emissions in healthcare, with a focus on clinical practices, governance, waste management, and decarbonization efforts.
  • * Key findings highlighted nine themes for emission reduction efforts, including changes in surgical practices, policy enactment, waste management, and minimizing transportation, among others.
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Background: As healthcare systems rapidly become more complex, healthcare leaders are navigating expanding role scopes and increasingly varied tasks to ensure the provision of high-quality patient care. Despite a range of leadership theories, models, and training curricula to guide leadership development, the roles and competencies required by leaders in the context of emerging healthcare challenges (e.g.

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Background: As global CO emissions continue to rise and the 'era of global boiling' takes hold, the health workforce must cope with the challenge of providing care to increasing numbers of patients affected by climate change-related events (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires, floods).

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