Overview
- Illustrates how systems and complexity sciences impact on healthcare
- Provides guidance to readers on how to implement insights from systems and complexity sciences into their own work, from basic medical science research and clinical practice, to health professional education and organizational change management
- Connects the issues and people involved in health care delivery and health system design
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Complexity in Clinical Care
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Complexity and the Healthcare System Ethics, Organisation Policy, and Politics
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About this book
This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to building healthcare systems that are accessible, effective, and prepared for change and challenges. Its holistic map for understanding the human organism emphasizes the interconnectedness of the individual’s physical, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural functioning. Applications of this approach are described in primary, specialist, and emergency care and at the organizational and policy levels, from translating findings to practice, to problem solving and evaluation. In this model, the differences between disease and illness and treating illness and restoring health are not mere wordplay, but instead are robust concepts reflecting real-world issues and their solutions.
Based on the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Systems and Complexity for Healthcare, topics covered include:
• Coping with complexity and uncertainty: insights from studying epidemiology in family medicine
• Anticipation in complex systems: potential implications for improving safety and quality in healthcare
• Monitoring variability and complexity at the bedside
• Viewing mental health through the lens of complexity science
• Ethical complexities in systems healthcare: what care and for whom?
• The value of systems and complexity thinking to enable change in adaptive healthcare organizations supported by informatics
• If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the theory: implications for health system reform
The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare will interest and inspire health and disease researchers, health professionals, health care planners, health system financiers, health system administrators, health services administrators, health professional educators, and, last but not least, current and future patients.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Together with Howard Federoff, Sturmberg organized the 1st International Conference of System and Complexity for Healthcare. Sturmberg and Carmel Martin are joi
nt 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: The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare
Editors: Joachim P. Sturmberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26221-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26219-2Published: 10 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79909-4Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26221-5Published: 01 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Administration, Health Care Management, Primary Care Medicine