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Putting Systems and Complexity Sciences Into Practice

Sharing the Experience

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Editors:
  1. Joachim P. Sturmberg

    1. School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

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  • Discusses how to successfully achieve change and avoid change fatigue
  • Describes why change is necessary but not sufficient and elucidates understanding the how and how to
  • Presents scale-free system redesign and how it affects the continuum from the local to the global

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Putting Health Back into the Healthcare System

    • Joachim P. Sturmberg
    Pages 1-8

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Healthy Smoker: An Oxymoron? Maybe, But It Is More Complicated Than That

      • Jeanette M. Bennett, Lydia G. Roos, Joseph S. Marino, Nicolas Rohleder, Maren J. Coffman
      Pages 11-27

    3. From Microbes to Models: How Coping with Ear Infections Led to a New Paradigm

      • Alonzo H. Jones
      Pages 29-42

    4. Suspending Hierarchy, Liberating Innovation: Personal Reflections on the Triple Chronotherapy Journey

      • Diane Hurd, Nicholas Coombs, Cara Fairbanks, Heather Landon, Andrea Macdonald, Kyle Luraas et al.
      Pages 43-49

    5. Supporting Complex Dynamic Health Journeys Using Conversation to Avert Hospital Readmissions from the Community: An Ecological Perspective Incorporating Interoception

      • Carmel Martin, Joachim P. Sturmberg, Keith Stockman, Donald Campbell, Lucy Hederman, Carl Vogel et al.
      Pages 51-71

    6. Transforming Monitoring and Improving Care with Variability-Derived Clinical Decision Support

      • Christophe L. Herry, Nathan B. Scales, Kimberley D. Newman, Andrew J. E. Seely
      Pages 73-82

    7. Linking Gulf War Illness to Genome Instability, Somatic Evolution, and Complex Adaptive Systems

      • Henry H. Heng, Guo Liu, Sarah Regan, Christine J. Ye
      Pages 83-95

    8. The Key to Implementing an Accessible Information Standard Across Complex Adaptive Health and Social Care Organisations

      • Beverley Ellis, John Howard, Howard Leicester
      Pages 97-115

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Transforming Health Education to Catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift: Systems Thinking, Complexity, and Design Thinking

      • Chad Swanson, Matt Widmer
      Pages 119-131

    3. New Ways of Knowing and Researching: Integrating Complexity into a Translational Health Sciences Program

      • Paige L. McDonald, Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano
      Pages 133-145

    4. Complexity of Knowledge in Primary Care: Understanding the Discipline’s Requisite Knowledge—A Bibliometric Study

      • Frauke Dunkel, Martin Konitzer
      Pages 147-164

    5. Journey to Refine Acute Care Hospital Process Improvement Projects for Ethically Complex Patients: Applying Complexity Tools to the Problem of Identifying Which Patients Need a Little More Attention than Most

      • Evan G. DeRenzo
      Pages 165-175

    6. Relationship Between Health Outcomes and Health Factors: Analysis of 2016 Data in the Pacific Northwest Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings and Roadmaps

      • Russell S. Gonnering, William J. Riley
      Pages 177-187

    7. Positive Deviance in Health Care: Beware of Pseudo-Equifinality

      • David C. Aron, Brigid Wilson, Chin-Lin Tseng, Orysya Soroka, Leonard M. Pogach
      Pages 189-198

    8. Understanding the Emergency Department Ecosystem Using Agent-Based Modeling: A Study of the Seven Oaks General Hospital Emergency Department

      • Oluwayemisi Olugboji, Sergio G. Camorlinga, Ricardo Lobato de Faria, Arjun Kaushal
      Pages 199-214

  5. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Leo’s Lions: An Art-Science Project

      • Bruno Kissling, Esther Quarroz
      Pages 217-229
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Keywords

About this book

This idea-packed resource takes systems and complexity sciences out of blue-sky territory and into the concrete world of contemporary healthcare practice. Beginning with a new reframing of health and illness, its chapters redesign traditional disease-centered models of care into modern, health-centered—and patient-centered—health service systems. The approaches shown here combine innovation and common sense to recognize and attend to patients’ needs across areas including health education and training, information accessibility, health service organization and delivery, and disease in individual context. The variety of solutions applied to this wide spectrum of issues shows the suitability of systems, complexity, and adaptive thinking to the ongoing objectives of making health services more responsive, effective, and equitable.

Highlights of the coverage:

 

  •  Healthy smoker: an oxymoron? Maybe, but it is more complicated than that
  • Transforming monitoring and improving care with variability-derived clinical decision support
  • Linking Gulf War illness to genome instability, somatic evolution, and complex adaptive systems
  • Complexity of knowledge in primary care: understanding the discipline’s requisite knowledge: a bibliometric study
  • New ways of knowing and researching: integrating complexity into a translational health sciences program
  • Understanding the emergency department ecosystem using agent-based modelling

Putting Systems and Complexity Sciences into Practice is an inspiring idea book that sill interest health policymakers, health financiers, organizational leaders, healthcare administrators, clinicians, researchers, students, and interested lay readers.                                                                                                              

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Joachim P. Sturmberg

About the editor

Joachim P. Sturmberg, MBBS, DORACOG, MFM, PhD, FRACGP, is conjoint associate professor of General Practice in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, at The University of Newcastle in Newcastle, Australia. He is a graduate of Lübeck Medical School in Germany, where he also completed his PhD. Since 1989, Sturmberg has worked in an urban group practice in the Central Coast of New South Wales. His research focuses on understanding the complex interconnected features of person-centered healthcare. Together with his collaborators, Sturmberg proposes that a truly functional health system ought to always focus on the needs of the person/patient across all domains affecting health -- local health delivery services, local and regional social and economic infrastructure and services, as well as in all portfolios at the national policy levels. These complex interdependent features of a person-centered healthcare system are described by the health vortex model. Sturmberg's current research focuses on operationalizing the health vortex model, integrating the physiology of health with health care delivery, the socioeconomic domains affecting health, and the impact of policy decisions on health and the healthcare system. 
Together with Howard Federoff, Sturmberg organized the 1st International Conference of System and Complexity for Healthcare. Sturmberg and Carmel Martin are joint co-editors in chief of the Forum on Systems and Complexity in Medicine and Healthcare as part of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Sturmberg co-chairs the Complexities in Health Special Interest Group in WONCA (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians) with Martin and Jim Price.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Putting Systems and Complexity Sciences Into Practice

  • Book Subtitle: Sharing the Experience

  • Editors: Joachim P. Sturmberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73636-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73635-8Published: 20 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08825-5Published: 19 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73636-5Published: 10 April 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Services Research, Health Care Management, Health Administration

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