Managing Diversity in Public Health

Managing Diversity in Public Health
Managing Diversity – Internally and Externally
Diversity is a challenge to Public Health organizations
and professionals and requires a proactivemanagement.
Diversity management in Public Health covers both an
outward-oriented and an inward-oriented strategy. The
outward-oriented strategy promotes and favors services
that are appropriate for, and responsive to, diversity by
ensuring access for all; while the inward-oriented strategy
seeks to increase diversity competence in the workforce
in order to improve the services that have to meet
diverse needs. Thereby, the so called ‘ demographic
imperative’ becomes a driving force of Public Health
development. It is important to highlight that the implementation
of diversity/equality policies and practices
involve the entire Public Health system and the success
strongly depends on the commitment of both management
and staff.