Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health

Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health
ISBN-10
1493922556
ISBN-13
9781493922550
Category
Medical
Pages
954
Language
English
Published
2014-10-28
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Joachim P Sturmberg, Carmel Martin

Description

This book is an introduction to health care as a complex adaptive system, a system that feeds back on itself. The first section introduces systems and complexity theory from a science, historical, epistemological, and technical perspective, describing the principles and mathematics. Subsequent sections build on the health applications of systems science theory, from human physiology to medical decision making, population health and health services research. The aim of the book is to introduce and expand on important population health issues from a systems and complexity perspective, highlight current research developments and their implications for health care delivery, consider their ethical implications, and to suggest directions for and potential pitfalls in the future.

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