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

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 central aspect of social care and security for all people, particularly the most vulnerable. From there, the author outlines necessary organizational, design, medical, and community steps toward building health systems that view and practice health care as a human right and can produce optimum care in the long term. And extensive illustrations display effective collaborative problem solving within these systems, in both intriguing theoretical models and the real world. Highlights of the coverage: · Systems and complexity thinking in health and health care· Redesign based on “first principles”· Redesign from an organizational perspective · Working together effectively and efficiently to achieve a common purpose · Analyzing “the workings” of health systems as complex adaptive systems · Person-centered, equitable, and sustainable health systems: achieving the goal __Health System Redesign__ brings a voice and a vision to the most pressing problems in healthcare service delivery, and offers new goals and purpose to health policymakers, health financiers, organizational leaders, clinicians, and concerned members of the local community 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 central aspect of social care and security for all people, particularly the most vulnerable. From there, the author outlines necessary organizational, design, medical, and community steps toward building health systems that view and practice health care as a human right and can produce optimum care in the long term. And extensive illustrations display effective collaborative problem solving within these systems, in both intriguing theoretical models and the real world. Highlights of the coverage: · Systems and complexity thinking in health and health care · &am p; nb sp; Redesign based on "first principles" · Redesign from an organizational perspective · Working together effectively and efficiently to achieve a common purpose · Analyzing "the workings" of health systems as complex adaptive systems · Person-centered, equitable, and sustainable health systems: achieving the goal Health System Redesign brings a voice and a vision to the most pressing problems in healthcare service delivery, and offers new goals and purpose to health policymakers, health financiers, organizational leaders, clinicians, and concerned members of the local community Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii We Need a Systemic Approach for the Redesign of Health Systems (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-20 Complexity Sciences (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 21-44 Visualisation of Complex Adaptive Systems (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 45-51 Defining Health (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 53-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-73 A Complex Adaptive Health System Redesign Based on “First Principles” (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 75-96 A Complex Adaptive Health System Redesign from an Organisational Perspective (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 97-110 A Complex Adaptive Health System: Real-World Examples (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 111-124 Leadership: Working Together Effectively and Efficiently to Achieve a Common Purpose (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 125-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-164 Analysing “the Workings” of Health Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 165-191 Health System Redesign: Applying Complex Adaptive Systems Approaches (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 193-211 Obesity—A Multifaceted Approach: One Problem—Different Models—Different Insights and Solutions (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 213-232 Front Matter ....Pages 233-239 ...how things ought to be (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 241-261 ...and how to get there (Joachim P. Sturmberg)....Pages 263-290 Back Matter ....Pages 291-297