Emerging Trends in Health Administration: Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic ERA

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has tremendously altered the world, exposing some of the deepest fallacies of public health systems while also spurring action and metamorphosis in the field of health management. Conventional practice: This review identifies some of the nascent trends which have transformed or reconstituted health administration practice in a post-pandemic world, and which include the uptake of digital health technologies, the move to an era of data-driven decision-making, the piloting of workforce resilience strategies and responsive management protocols, together with patient-centred care models. The paper analyses some significant issues facing health managers—access to resources, worker fatigue, inequities in health, cyberattacks—but also emphasizes the potential for systems strengthening through policy change, technology adoption and cross-sector collaboration. This paper draws on recent literature and global case studies to offer a critical review of the ways in which health administration is adapting to challenges of a fast and ever changing healthcare environment. Recent trends emphasize agile leadership, strong governance, and equity-centred frameworks to sustain and strengthen healthcare systems for a better tomorrow.