Complexity leadership : nursing's role in health care delivery
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat26326
Diana M. Crowell.
--Philadelphia, PA:
F.A. Davis Company
, c2011.
- Call Number
- WY 105 C953c 2011
- Location
- Dickson Building
- Call Number
- WY 105 C953c 2011
- Author
- Crowell, Diana M
- Responsibility
- Diana M. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Publisher
- F.A. Davis Company
- Date of Publication
- c2011
- Physical Description
- 228 p.
- ISBN
- 9780803622333
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Leadership
- Nurse Administrators
- Nurse's Role
- Nursing - organization & administration
- Nursing, Supervisory
- Systems Analysis
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Dickson Building
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Diversity and cultural competence in health care : a systems approach
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat26292
Janice L. Dreachslin, M. Jean Gilbert, Beverly Malone.
--San Francisco, CA:
Jossey Bass
, c2013.
- Call Number
- WA 31 D771 2013
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
Written by three nationally known scholars and experts, Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Systems Approach is designed to provide upper division and graduate level health care students and professionals with a clear understanding of recent philosophies and processes undergirding diversity management, inclusion, and culturally competent care delivery as seen through the lens of current health care policy and practice. The textbook integrates strategic diversity man…
- Call Number
- WA 31 D771 2013
- Author
- Dreachslin, Janice L
- Other Authors
- Gilbert, M Jean
- Malone, Beverly
- Responsibility
- Janice L. Dreachslin, M. Jean Gilbert, Beverly Malone
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Publisher
- Jossey Bass
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 457 p.
- ISBN
- 9781118065600
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cultural Competency - United States
- Cultural Diversity - United States
- Delivery of Health Care - United States
- Healthcare Disparities - United States
- Systems Analysis - United States
- Abstract
- Written by three nationally known scholars and experts, Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Systems Approach is designed to provide upper division and graduate level health care students and professionals with a clear understanding of recent philosophies and processes undergirding diversity management, inclusion, and culturally competent care delivery as seen through the lens of current health care policy and practice. The textbook integrates strategic diversity management, self-reflective leadership and the personal change process, with culturally and linguistically appropriate care into a cohesive systems-oriented approach for health care professionals--Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Part One. The diversity imperative -- Part Two. The development of cultural competence -- Part Three. Cultural comptence and health care delivery -- Part Four. Cultural competence and the health care organization -- Index.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Embracing Complexity in Health : The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44501
Joachim P. Sturmberg, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization. Researchers highlight the fresh perspectives and novel approaches offered by these interdisciplinary fields in addressing the complexities of global, national, and community health challenges in the 21st century. With the implications that these emerging fields hold for health still relatively underexplored, researchers from a wide vari…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Sturmberg, Joachim P.
- Responsibility
- Joachim P. Sturmberg, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 335 p.) : 77 illus., 64 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030109400
- 9783030109394 (Print ed.)
- 9783030109417 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Delivery of Health Care - trends
- Systems Analysis
- Specialty
- Health Services Administration
- Abstract
- This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization. Researchers highlight the fresh perspectives and novel approaches offered by these interdisciplinary fields in addressing the complexities of global, national, and community health challenges in the 21st century. With the implications that these emerging fields hold for health still relatively underexplored, researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, including physiological, social, environmental, clinical, prevention, educational, organizational, finance, and policy domains, aim in this book to suggest future directions in health care and highlight recent advances in basic and clinical physiology, education, policy-making, and leadership. Among the topics discussed: Impact of genomic heterogeneity on bio-emergent properties; Harnessing Big Data to improve health services; 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. .
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction: A Systems and Complexity Science Understanding of Health -- If You Change the Way You Look at Things, Things You Look at Change. Max Planck’s Challenge for Health, Health Care, and the Healthcare System -- Fail Small, Fail Often: An Outsider’s View of Physiologic Complexity -- Part II. Physiology -- A Puzzling Question: How Can Different Phenotypes Possibly Have Indistinguishable Disease Symptoms? -- Complexity Sciences Dramatically Improve Biomarker Research and Use -- Analyzing Complex Medical Image Information: Convolution Versus Wavelets in a Neural Net -- The Mechanisms of How Genomic Heterogeneity Impacts Bio-Emergent Properties: The Challenges for Precision Medicine -- Part III. Health Care -- The Health System Quartet: Four Basic Systems—Cure, Care, Heal, and Deal—To Foster the Co-production of Sustained Health -- Humans and Big Data: New Hope? Harnessing the Power of Person-Centred Data Analytics -- Is Decision-Making of Women Concerning Their Violent Relationships Truly Nonlinear . . . and Why Is That? -- Co-producing Healthcare Interventions: Transforming Transdisciplinary Research to Develop Healthcare Services to Meet the Needs of Patients with Complex Problems - Part IV. Education and Leadership -- Coordinated Tension: The “Secret Sauce” to Enable Decision-Making in a Global Health Complex Adaptive System -- A Systems Perspective for Measuring Features of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Producing Teams (TDKPTs) -- How and Why Effective Leaders Construct and Evolve Structural Attractors to Overcome Spatial, Temporal, and Social Complexity -- Physician Burnout: A U.S. Public Health Crisis in Need of a Socio-Ecological Solution -- Part V. Health Systems and Policy -- Organisational Relativity—Changing Our Perspective on Health and Health Care -- A Systems Model of HIT-Induced Complexity -- Salutogenesis Revisited -- Disappointment-Driven System Improvement in Health Care -- A Study on the Modeling of Obesity.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Handbook of systems and complexity in health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32410
Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin, editors.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
Systems and complexity theory plays critical roles in such varied fields as computer science, the physical sciences, meteorology, and economics--and yet health care has yet to take full advantage of what it has to offer. What the theory offers is on rich display as the Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health presents a revolutionary approach to reforming basic practice and large-scale care delivery, based on the concept of health care as a complex, self-organized, and self-interactive syst…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Sturmberg, Joachim P
- Martin, Carmel M
- Responsibility
- Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 954 p. : 269 ill., 165 ill. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781461449980
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Quality Improvement
- Systems Analysis
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Practice of medicine
- Physics
- Engineering
- Abstract
- Systems and complexity theory plays critical roles in such varied fields as computer science, the physical sciences, meteorology, and economics--and yet health care has yet to take full advantage of what it has to offer. What the theory offers is on rich display as the Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health presents a revolutionary approach to reforming basic practice and large-scale care delivery, based on the concept of health care as a complex, self-organized, and self-interactive system. The book's opening section provides readers with a thorough grounding in systems and complexity theory from scientific, historical, epistemological, and technical perspectives, complete with the principles and mathematics behind it. From there, contributors offer models of innovation and improvement in service delivery, disease prevention and health promotion, cost-effectiveness, communication, quality control--in short, a more efficient and equitable future for health care. And one particularly intriguing chapter suggests opportunities for complexity theory in refining the drug prescription process. A sampling of the coverage: Understanding health and illness from a complexity perspective. A methodology for analyzing medical data. Modeling illness and recovery with nonlinear dynamics. Clinical applications: inflammation, diabetes, panic disorder, pain, domestic violence, cardiovascular disorders, and the art of the consultation. Complexity science at the bedside: continuous multiorgan variability monitoring in critically ill patients. Primary care as a complex adaptive system. Researchers in health services research, health policy, and health administration will find in the Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health a new way of viewing health and illness, and potentially a new way to organize health care delivery.
- Contents
- 1. Complexity in Health - An Introduction -- 2. Complexity, uncertainty and mess as the links between science and the humanities in healthcare -- Part 1 - Complexity Theory and Methods -- 3. Understanding Complex Systems -- 4. The Complex Nature of Knowledge -- 5. Mathematical Principles: Tales of Tails -- 6. Modelling -- 7. A methodology for the analysis of medical data -- 8. Psychological Rhythmicities -- 9. Modeling Illness and Recovery with Nonlinear Dynamics -- Part 2 - Dynamics in Human Health -- 10. Homeostasis: The Dynamic Self-regulatory Process that Maintains Health and Buffers against Disease -- 11. Fractals in Physiology & Medicine -- 12. Bio-complexity: challenging reductionism -- Part 3 - Concepts of Health -- 13. Trying to Make Sense of Health -- 14. Picture Health -- 15. Health - A personal complex-adaptive state -- 16. Understanding Health By Building Better Bio-Medical Models -- 17. Health a systems and complexity based definition -- Part 4 Clinical Application -- 18. Complexities of the Consultation -- 19. Inflammation through a Psychoneuroimmunological Lens -- 20. Diabetes control: insights from complexity science -- 21. Complexity and the onset of psychosis -- 22. Understanding intimate partner violence through its dynamics -- 23. Multi-level interdependencies and constraints in panic disorder: Many triggers, few responses -- 24. Nonlinear Relations of Cardiovascular Risk Factors to Neuropsychological Function and Dementia -- 25. Pain and Complex Adaptive System Theory -- 26. Complexity in Movement Disorders: A Systems Approach to Intervention -- 27. Avoidable hospitalizations in older adults -- 28. Continuous Multiorgan Variability Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients Complexity Science at the Bedside -- Part 5 - Health Services -- 29. An overview of complexity theory: understanding primary care as a complex adaptive system -- 30. Real-time Analytics and Quality of Care -- 31. Medical Sociology and Case-Based Complexity Science: A User's Guide -- 32. The Drug Prescription Process: a Network Medicine Approach -- 33. Applications of Complex Dynamics, an Approach to Refractory Health Policy Interventions -- 34. Designing for Health Promotion, Social Innovation and Complexity: The CoNEKTR Model for Wicked Problems -- 35. The Dynamical Behaviours of Diseases in Africa -- Part 6 - Health System -- 36. Health Transition Funds Initiatives: Implications for Health System Reform and Evaluation -- 37. Putting complexity to work - supporting practitioners in health systems -- 38. Implementing Adaptive Health Practice ' A Complexity-Based Philosophy of Health Care -- 39. Mayo Clinic: Making Complex Healthcare Simpler -- 40. Embracing Uncertainty: Complexity Inspired Innovations at Billings Clinic -- 41. A Complexity Science Perspective of Organizational Behavior in Clinical Microsystems -- 42. Reverse the Epidemic Tides of Unhealthy Habits: Personal, Professional and Leadership Challenges -- 43. Health Professions Education: Complexity, Teaching and Learning -- 44. Understanding Clinical Complexity through conversational learning in medical social networks: Implementing User Driven Health care -- Part 7 The Future of Healthcare -- 45. Making sense from complex systems theories, models and analytics to adapting actions and practices in health and health care -- 46. Modeling the Paradox of Primary Care -- 47. Health Care Reform the need for a complex adaptive systems approach -- 48. A Complexity Science Approach to Healthcare Costs and Quality -- 49. Opportunities in Delivery of Preventive Services in Retail Settings -- 50. Complexity Science in the Future of Behavioral Medicine -- 51. Systems Medicine A New Model for Healthcare -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Human Factors in Surgery : Enhancing Safety and Flow in Patient Care
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45658
edited by Tara N. Cohen, Eric J. Ley, Bruce L. Gewertz.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book delivers a comprehensive review of human factors principles as they relate to surgical care inside and outside of the operating theatre. It provides multi-dimensional human-centered insights from the viewpoint of academic surgeons and experts in human factors engineering to improve workflow, treatment time, and outcomes. To guide the reader, the book begins broadly with Human Factors Principles for Surgery then narrows to a discussion of surgical specialties and scenarios. Each chapte…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Cohen, Tara N
- Ley, Eric J
- Gewertz, Bruce L
- Responsibility
- edited by Tara N. Cohen, Eric J. Ley, Bruce L. Gewertz.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 247 p.)
- ISBN
- 9783030531270
- 9783030531263 (Print ed.)
- 9783030531287 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- General Surgery
- Patient Safety
- Safety Management
- Systems Analysis
- Specialty
- General Surgery
- Perioperative Medicine
- Abstract
- This book delivers a comprehensive review of human factors principles as they relate to surgical care inside and outside of the operating theatre. It provides multi-dimensional human-centered insights from the viewpoint of academic surgeons and experts in human factors engineering to improve workflow, treatment time, and outcomes. To guide the reader, the book begins broadly with Human Factors Principles for Surgery then narrows to a discussion of surgical specialties and scenarios. Each chapter follows the following structure: (1) An overview of the topic at hand to provide a reference for readers; (2) a case study or story to illustrate the topic; (3) a discussion of the topic including human factors insights; (4) lessons learned, or personal “pearls” related to improving the specific system described. Written by experts in the field, Human Factors in Surgery: Enhancing Safety and Flow in Patient Care describes elements of the surgical system and highlights the lessons learned from systems engineering. It serves as a valuable resource for surgeons at any level in their training that wish to improve their practice.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- Introduction to Human Factors in Surgery -- Part II. Human Factors -- Human Factors Principles for Surgery -- The Person: Individual and Team-Level Factors Contributing to Safe and Successful Surgery -- Safe and Effective Use of Tools and Technology in the Operating Room -- Work System Tasks: Blending Art and Science -- Surgical Performance and the Working Environment -- Organizational Influences and Surgical System Safety -- Part III. Broad Surgical Considerations -- Human Factors in Perioperative Care -- Counting Backwards: Tracing the Effect of Human Factors in Anesthesiology -- Human Factors in Military Surgery -- Addressing Work-System Challenges in Robotic or High-Technology Surgery -- Surgical Coaching: Improving Team-based and System-level Interventions -- Part IV. Specific Surgical Areas -- Human Factors Considerations in Cardiac Surgery -- Applying a Human Factors Approach to Improve Patient Care in Colorectal Surgery -- Identifying Opportunities to Improve Processes in Emergency General Surgery -- Surgical Oncology and Human Factors -- Human Factors Research in Orthopedic Surgery -- Human Factors in Pediatric Surgery -- Plastics and Reconstruction: The Role of Human Factors -- Human Factors in Transplant Surgery -- Exploring Human Factors in Trauma -- Identifying Opportunities to Enhance Thoracic Surgery Using Human Factors -- The Application of Human Factors Research to Improve Urological Care -- Vascular Surgery – Acute Aortic Catastrophes -- Part V. Conclusion -- Final Thoughts.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Place and Health as Complex Systems : A Case Study and Empirical Test
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39105
Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter, Michael Ball, Frederic Hafferty.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Castellani, Brian
- Other Authors
- Rajaram, Rajeev
- Buckwalter, J. Galen
- Ball, Michael
- Hafferty, Frederic
- Responsibility
- Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter, Michael Ball, Frederic Hafferty
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 82 p. : 8 illus.)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319097343
- 9783319097336 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Environment
- Epidemiology
- Geography, Medical
- Public Health
- Social Medicine
- Spatio-Temporal Analysis
- Systems Analysis
- Abstract
- The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its use in designing and implementing interventions. This brief resource reviews the defining characteristics of places as dynamic and evolving social systems, rigorously testing them as well as the COP approach itself. The study, of twenty communities within one county in the Midwest, combines case-based methods and complexity science to determine whether COP improves upon traditional statistical methods of public health research. Its conclusions reveal strengths and limitations of the approach, immediate possibilities for its use, and challenges regarding future research. Included in the coverage: Characteristics of places and the complexities of place approach. The Definitional Test of Complex Systems. Case-based modeling using the SACS toolkit. Methods, maps, and measures used in the study. Places as nodes within larger networks. Places as power-based conflicted negotiations. Place and Health as Complex Systems brings COP into greater prominence in public health research, and is also valuable to researchers in related fields such as demography, health geography, community health, urban planning, and epidemiology.
- Contents
- 1. The Complexities of Place Approach -- 2. Definitional Test of Complex Systems -- 3. Case-Based Modeling and the SACS Toolkit -- 4. Methods -- 5. Places Are Complex -- 6. Places Are Emergent and Self-Organizing -- 7. Places Are Nodes within Larger Networks -- 8. Places Are Dynamic and Evolving -- 9. Places Are Nonlinear -- 10. Places Are Subjective and Historical -- 11. Places Are Open-Ended with Fuzzy Boundaries -- 12. Places Are Power-Based Conflicted Negotiations -- 13. Places Are Agent-Based -- 14. Conclusion.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Putting Systems and Complexity Sciences Into Practice : Sharing the Experience
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42997
edited by Joachim P. Sturmberg.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2018.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
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 t…
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- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Sturmberg, Joachim P.
- Responsibility
- edited by Joachim P. Sturmberg
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 244 p.) : 78 illus., 69 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319736365
- 9783319736358 (print ed.)
- 9783319736372 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Delivery of Health Care
- Quality Improvement
- Systems Analysis
- Abstract
- 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 Practiceáis an inspiring idea book that sill interest health policymakers, health financiers, organizational leaders, healthcare administrators, clinicians, researchers, students, and interested lay readers.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Learning: Contemplating the Unexamined Core of Learning Health Systems -- From Clinical Ethics to Big Data Analytics: Applying Systems and Complexity Science to the Care of Hospitalized Patients -- Visualisation in Simulation of Complex Systems in Healthcare -- Social and institutional change in complex health systems: Lessons learned -- The Complex Relationship Between Health Outcomes and Health Factors in the Pacific Northwest -- Pitfalls in Identifying High Performers in Diabetes Overtreatment: Positive Deviance may be neither Positive nor Deviant -- Why the Interdisciplinary Team Approach Works: Insights from Complexity Science -- The multiple networks of multimorbidity Jones - Changing the Medical Paradigm: Why the Allostatic Model Makes More Sense -- New Ways of Knowing and Researching: Integrating Systems and Complexity into a Translational Health Sciences PhD -- Transforming Monitoring and Improving Care with Variability-derived Clinical Decision Support -- Merchant - The Impact of Relational Coordination on Collaboration, Care, and Thinking.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39996
Joachim P. Sturmberg, editor.
(1st ed.)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2016.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
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…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- International Conference on Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare (1st : 2014 : Washington DC)
- Other Authors
- Sturmberg, Joachim P
- Responsibility
- Joachim P. Sturmberg, editor
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 285 p. : 89 illus., 18 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319262215
- 9783319262192 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Theory
- Abstract
- 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, 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.
- Contents
- Part I. Complexity in Clinical Care -- 1. “Returning to Holism”: An Imperative for the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Systems Biology: Unravelling Molecular Complexity in Health and Disease -- 3. Complicated vs. Complex, Disease vs. Illness: Rethinking Diagnosis, Therapy, and Restoring Health -- 4. A System for Systems Epidemiology: The Example of Inference from Agent-Based Models -- 5. Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty: Insights from Studying Epidemiology in Family Medicine -- 6. Anticipation in Complex Systems: Potential Implications for Improving Safety and Quality in Healthcare -- 7. Extreme Variability is Typical Not Normal -- 8. Monitoring Variability and Complexity at the Bedside -- 9. Heterogeneity Mediated System Complexity: The Ultimate Challenge for Studying Common and Complex Diseases -- 10. Multimorbidity: Through a Glass Darkly -- 11. Viewing Mental Health Through the Lens of Complexity Science -- 12. Quantitatively Demonstrating the Complex Nature of Intimate Partner Violence -- 13. Depression: Not Just a Top–Down Phenomenon -- Part II. Complexity and the Healthcare System Ethics, Organisation Policy, and Politics -- 14. Ethical Complexities in Systems Healthcare: What Care and for Whom? -- 15. Systematic Reviews: Beyond Cochrane to Complexity -- 16. Agent-Based Modelling of Organizational Performance -- 17. Leading the Emergency Department as a Complex Adaptive System -- 18. The Value of Systems and Complexity Thinking to Enable Change in Adaptive Healthcare Organisations, Supported by Informatics -- 19. Using a Team Approach to Address Avoidable Emergency Department Utilization and Re-hospitalizations as Symptoms of Complexity Through Quality Improvement Methodology -- 20. Access to Primary Care: A Complex Adaptive Systems Lens on Acuity -- 21. “If the Facts Don’t Fit the Theory, Change the Theory”: Implications for Health System Reform -- Appendices.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Congress
- Location
- Online
