Overview
- Provides new perspectives towards addressing problems faced by patients, practitioners, healthcare researchers, and health system managers
- Provides the latest insights of applying systems and complexity sciences to healthcare services, physiological basis of health and disease, health professional education, and health system redesign
- Features authorship of experienced practitioners and researchers in their respective fields
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Among the topics discussed:
- Impact of genomic heterogeneity on bio-emergent properties
- Harnessing Big Data to improve healthservices
- Decision-making of women in violent relationships
- Co-producing healthcare interventions
- A socio-ecological solution to physician burnout
Embracing Complexity in Health: The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy is a highly relevant resource to practitioners in the field, students, instructors, and policy makers, and also should find an engaged audience among health and disease researchers, healthcare planners, health system financiers, health system administrators, health services administrators, health professional educators, and other health professionals. The trans- and interdisciplinary natures of health and health care are fostering a broad discourse amongst all concerned with improving patient care in an equitable and sustainable way.
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Keywords
- complexity sciences
- health systems organization
- healthcare reform
- systems medicine
- healthcare policy
- complex adaptive systems
- nonlinear dynamics
- organizational learning
- multi-morbidity
- disease management
- health professional education
- complex health care
- complex conditions
- medical knowledge
- knowledge management
- organizational reform
- global health
- sustainable health
- fractal physiology
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction: A Systems and Complexity Science Understanding of Health
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Physiology
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Health Care
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Education and Leadership
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: Embracing Complexity in Health
Book Subtitle: The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy
Editors: Joachim P. Sturmberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10940-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10939-4Published: 27 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10940-0Published: 16 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Services Research, Health Administration, Health Policy