Overview
- 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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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.
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Keywords
- health system reform
- health system redesign
- healthcare reform
- complex adaptive systems
- complex adaptive health system
- complexity and health
- leadership
- public health
- equity in health care
- modeling health system problems
- values in health care
- patient-centered care
- systems analysis
- complexity sciences
- systems science
- complex health systems
- translational research
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
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Part III
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 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