Health System Redesign How to Make Health Care Person-Centered, Equitable, and Sustainable /

• Main Author: Sturmberg, Joachim P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Health administration.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Medical care.; Public health.; Health Administration.; Health Care Management.; Health Services Research.

This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems. Reframing health systems as complex adaptive systems, the book identifies health care as a centra...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.- Part 1 - Complexity and Healthcare.- Complexity Sciences.-Visualisation of complex adaptive systems.-Defining Health.-Part 2 - The "Ideal" Health System.- The Ideal health system.-The Ideal health system - An Organisational perspective
• The Ideal health system - Real World examples
• Leadership - A prerequisite to achieve an ideal health system
• Part 3 - Achieving a Person-Centered, Equitable, and Sustainable Health System
• Analysing the workings of health systems as systems
• Health System Redesign - Applying CAS approaches
• Obesity - A multifaceted approach
• Complex adaptive health systems - A win-win-win solution.- Appendices - Literature Excerpts
•  Conceptual frameworks of complexity sciences
• A pragmatic guide for leaders to change frames and habits of mind for complexity thinkers
• Guide to developing a model Values in Healthcare.