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.
This book explores various individual user-driven strategies that assist in solving multiple clinical system problems in healthcare, using social networking to improve their healthcare outcomes"--Provided by publisher.
Refocuses on the subjective and social nature of health and illness. This book takes a systems approach to primary care, incorporating developments, social aspects, critical discourse, international perspectives, and the history and philosophy of medicine. It is also suitable for general practitioners and other primary healthcare professionals.
This text offers a perspective on the decorative arts of the mid-20th century. It focuses on 200 of the finest objects from the most important designers and artists of the time, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and Mario Bellini." - product description.
Up-to-date analysis of new medical perspectives and concepts in caring for the chronically ill. Discusses the general shift in health care from the biomedical to the biopsychosocial and the subsequent merging of somatic, psychological and social elements in the treatment of chronic illness. Encourages patient's self-management and applies principles to the community at large. Topics covered include emerging perspectives, patient-practitioner relationships, stigma as a social process, ageing and chronic disease, the evolving role of general practice in diabetes care, depression, chronic fatigue and occupational chronic illness. Features essays from health and sociology practitioners and academics throughout Australia. Includes author biographies and index.
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