Applied Systems Thinking For Health Systems Research A Methodological Handbook

Author : Don de Savigny
Publisher : Open University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0335261329

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Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research by Don de Savigny Pdf

Patient safety in health systems has become more and more important as a theme in health research, and so it is not surprising to see a growing interest in applying systems thinking to healthcare. However there is a difficulty - health systems are very complex and constantly adapting to respond to core drivers and fit needs. How do you apply systems thinking in this situation, and what methods are available? National health authorities, international donors and research practitioners need to know the "how-to" of conducting health systems research from a systems thinking perspective. This book will fill this gap and provide a range of tools that give clear guidance of ways to carry out systems thinking in health, with real-world examples. These methodologies include: - System dynamics and causal loops - Network analysis - Outcome mapping - Soft systems methodology And many more. Written by an international team of experts in health research, this handbook will be essential reading for those working in or researching public health, health policy, health systems, global health, service improvement and innovation in practice.. "For those working in the health sector, the relevance and value of systems thinking as a concept is evident. However, operationalization of this concept has been a challenge. With this new book, health researchers have a detailed guide for applying system thinking tools in day-to-day operations to identify and solve issues related to health policy and systems." Ghaffar Abdul, Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Switzerland "This book is the first to present practical options for applying systems thinking to understand complexity in health systems. The editors compile an essential collection of practical tools for understanding complex problems and framing research questions, as well as for determining and managing related solutions. Each tool is presented through an accessible summary of the method and the theory upon which it is based, as well as a real-world example. It will be a valuable resource for teaching and practice." Ligia Paina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA "This keenly-awaited book offers a lucid and comprehensive discussion on how to research complex health systems. Health systems are facing a rapid change and increased complexity, with well-designed solutions often leading to unintended consequences. The book provides invaluable help in navigating this complexity and applying rigorous as well as pragmatic approaches to capturing dynamic interactions between system elements and causal loops. The authors op

Author : Don de Savigny,Karl Blanchet,Taghreed Adam
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335261338

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Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research: a Methodological Handbook by Don de Savigny,Karl Blanchet,Taghreed Adam Pdf

Patient safety in health systems has become more and more important as a theme in health research, and so it is not surprising to see a growing interest in applying systems thinking to healthcare. However there is a difficulty – health systems are very complex and constantly adapting to respond to core drivers and fit needs. How do you apply systems thinking in this situation, and what methods are available? National health authorities, international donors and research practitioners need to know the “how-to” of conducting health systems research from a systems thinking perspective. This book will fill this gap and provide a range of tools that give clear guidance of ways to carry out systems thinking in health. These methodologies include: System dynamics and causal loops Network analysis Outcome mapping Soft systems methodology Written by an international team of experts in health research, this handbook will be essential reading for those working in or researching public health, health policy, health systems, global health, service improvement and innovation in practice.

Author : Jo. M. Martins,Indra Pathmanathan,David T. Tan,Shiang Cheng Lim,Pascale Allotey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108845205

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Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development by Jo. M. Martins,Indra Pathmanathan,David T. Tan,Shiang Cheng Lim,Pascale Allotey Pdf

Employing critical-systems thinking, this study analyses the evolution of a health system providing universal coverage.

Author : Martin Reynolds,Sue Holwell (Retired)
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447174721

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Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide by Martin Reynolds,Sue Holwell (Retired) Pdf

The five approaches outlined in this book offers the systems thinking practitioner a range of interchangeable tools for pro-actively making systemic improvements amidst complex situations of change and uncertainty. Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tools and know-how for understanding such failure, and the making of systemic improvement. In our fragile Anthropocene world where ‘systems change’ is often invoked as the rallying call for purposeful alternative action, this book provides a toolkit to help constructively make systems that can change situations for the better. Systems Approaches offers an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand systems thinking and to enact systems thinking in practice. The book helps practitioners from all professions to better understand inter-relationships, engage with multiple perspectives, and reflect on boundary judgements that can inhibit or enhance improved purposeful change. After an editorial introduction to these systems thinking in practice capabilities, successive chapters illustrate five systems approaches, each chosen for having a rigorous though adaptable framework, and a robust long pedigree of application in complex situations. Each chapter illustrates what the approach is about, followed by invaluable tips and insights from experience regarding how the tools might be practiced. Amongst updates from originating authors for this 2nd edition, each approach has an accompanying postscript on some developments since the 1st edition.

Author : Kayvan Bozorgmehr,Bayard Roberts,Oliver Razum,Louise Biddle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030338121

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Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration by Kayvan Bozorgmehr,Bayard Roberts,Oliver Razum,Louise Biddle Pdf

Forced migration has yet to be sufficiently addressed from the perspective of health policy and systems research, resulting in limited knowledge on system‐level interventions and policies to improve the health of forced migrants. The contributions within this edited volume seek to rectify this gap in the literature by compiling the existing knowledge on health systems and health policy responses to forced migration with a focus on asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced people. It also brings together the work of research communities from the fields of political science, epidemiology, health sciences, economics, psychology, and sociology to push the knowledge frontier of health research in the area of forced migration towards health policy and systems-level interventions, while also framing potential routes for further research in this area. Among the analyses within the chapters: The political economy of health and forced migration in Europe Innovative humanitarian health financing for refugees Understanding the resilience of health systems Health security in the context of forced migration Discrimination as a health systems response to forced migration Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration offers unique and interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical, and literature-based perspectives that apply a health policy and systems approach to health and healthcare challenges among forced migrants. It will find an engaged audience among policy makers and analysts, international organizations, scholars in academia, think tanks, and students in undergraduate programs or at the graduate level, for policy, practice, and educational purposes.

Author : João Costa
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466933

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Health as a Social System by João Costa Pdf

While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann's vast and productive theory has been given too little consideration in the field. It is rich in concepts that can facilitate a fuller understanding of what health systems are. João Costa applies these concepts and shows the analytical possibilities they open up. He argues concisely how Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers an integrated theoretical body as well as a consistent articulation of concepts that can lay the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.

Author : Kara Durski,Karl Blanchet,Aku Kwamie,Maria Del Rocio Saenz
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832540664

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Systems thinking: strengthening health systems in practice by Kara Durski,Karl Blanchet,Aku Kwamie,Maria Del Rocio Saenz Pdf

As health systems all over the world not only recover from COVID-19, but learn to adapt to contexts of increasing uncertainty amidst persistent challenges, it is clear that systems thinking has never been needed more. Systems thinking is an approach to problem-solving that views problems as part of a wider dynamic system. It recognizes and prioritizes the understanding of linkages, relationships, interactions and interdependencies among the components of a system that give rise to the system’s observed behaviour. Systems thinking is a philosophical frame, and it can also be considered a method with its own tools. Identifying ways in the short and long-term which strengthen health systems is critical and applied systems thinking offers opportunities to do this. Systems thinking is often considered to be a field, a discipline, a philosophical approach and a set of tools and methods and can be defined as a way to understand and improve complex issues and situations. Despite broad consensus that systems thinking is important in health systems strengthening, it remains underutilized by researchers, public health practitioners and health decision makers. Further, a gap remains in the translation from concept to policy.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789241563895

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Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening by World Health Organization Pdf

Makes the case for systems thinking in an easily accessible form for a broad interdisciplinary audience, including health system stewards, programme implementers, researchers, evaluators, and funding partners.

Author : Geoffrey Banda,Maureen Mackintosh,Mercy Karimi Njeru,Fortunata Songora Makene,Smita Srinivas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031441233

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Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India by Geoffrey Banda,Maureen Mackintosh,Mercy Karimi Njeru,Fortunata Songora Makene,Smita Srinivas Pdf

This open access edited volume focuses on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed international supply chains for health. That experience brought home to African policy makers the critical nature of local manufacturing capabilities for sustaining and strengthening health care, and highlighted the pandemic benefits of India’s much stronger industrial base. At that time, a network of researchers in East Africa, India and the UK were investigating how to address the crisis of cancer care in low-resource health systems. Their project, uniquely, focused on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The project researchers were also drawn into the pressing demands of Covid19 response. The result is this very timely book. The authors link their research on cancer to pandemic experience, and they draw sharp lessons for how countries can enhance their populations’ health security. The authors argue that improving cancer care is crucial for human wellbeing and more inclusive health care. They challenge policy makers to bring together health needs, health innovations and improved industrial capabilities to embed better cancer care and broader health system improvement in local industrial innovation and development.

Author : Taye Girma Debelee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031576393

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Pan-African Conference on Artificial Intelligence by Taye Girma Debelee Pdf

Author : Mario C. B. Raviglione,Fabrizio Tediosi,Simone Villa,Núria Casamitjana,Antoni Plasència
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031338519

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Global Health Essentials by Mario C. B. Raviglione,Fabrizio Tediosi,Simone Villa,Núria Casamitjana,Antoni Plasència Pdf

This practical and handy textbook offers a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the main challenges, issues and solutions in global health in relation to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 agenda. Subdivided into 11 parts, devoted each to a macro-topic, the book opens with an introduction to Global Health followed by an overview of the global burden of disease – from child and maternal health to communicable and non-communicable diseases. The authors further examine the social determinants of health, health systems’ features as well as innovations, governance and methods in Global Health. In consideration of the emerging discussions and ideas, and beyond the more traditional and essential elements of global health, the book also looks at the need to re-think the whole concept of global health and the importance of a “decolonized” approach that engages low and lower-middle countries fully. One entire part is then devoted to analyzing the major threats to the health of humanity such as climate change, the need for an ecological approach to health (including “One Health” approaches), and, ultimately, planetary health. Written by an international panel of more than 100 experts, this manual will be an excellent resource for students in a broad range of disciplines – from medicine and other scientific studies to economics, social science, anthropology and international relations. Pragmatic and reader-friendly, it will further be a valuable tool for policymakers, program implementers and those wishing to build knowledge on the meaning, principles and practices of global health.

Author : James A. Johnson,Douglas E. Anderson,Caren C. Rossow
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781284167146

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Health Systems Thinking by James A. Johnson,Douglas E. Anderson,Caren C. Rossow Pdf

This book is a primer focusing on systems thinking as it spans the domains of health administration, public health, and clinical practice. Currently, the accrediting commissions within public health, health administration, and nursing are including systems thinking as part of the core competencies in their respective fields and professions. Meanwhile, academic programs do not have the materials, other than journal articles, to give students the requisite understanding of systems thinking as is expected of the next generation of health professionals. This primer is designed to meet that void and serve as a supplemental reading for this important and timely topic. This is the only book of its kind that provides a broad introduction and demonstration of the application of health systems thinking.

Author : Zachary P. Neal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317607083

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Handbook of Applied System Science by Zachary P. Neal Pdf

The Handbook of Applied System Science is organized around both methodological approaches in systems science, and the substantive topic to which these approaches have been applied. The volume begins with an essay that introduces three system science methods: agent-based modeling, system dynamics, and network analysis. The remainder of the volume is organized around three broad topics: (1) health and human development, (2) environment and sustainability, and (3) communities and social change. Each part begins with a brief introductory essay, and includes nine chapters that demonstrate the application of system science methods to address research questions in these areas. This handbook will be useful for work in Public Health, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Social Work, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Urban Studies, and Psychology.

Author : Catherine Walshe,Sarah Brearley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781785363214

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Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research by Catherine Walshe,Sarah Brearley Pdf

This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains a wide range of research designs and other contemporary issues in applied health research.

Author : Andrew Stevens,Keith Abrams,John Brazier,Ray Fitzpatrick,Richard Lilford
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781847876751

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The Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare by Andrew Stevens,Keith Abrams,John Brazier,Ray Fitzpatrick,Richard Lilford Pdf

′This handbook is an excellent reflection of the growing maturity and methodological sophistication of the field of Health Technology Assessment. The Handbook covers a spectrum of issues, from primary evidence (clinical trials) through reviews and meta-analysis, to identifying and filling gaps in the evidence. Up-to-date, clearly written, and well-edited, the handbook is a needed addition to any personal or professional library dealing with Health Technology Assessment.′ Professor David Banta, TNO Prevention and Health, The Netherlands ′This text presents the most advanced knowledge on methodology in health care research, and will form the backbone of many future studies′ - Paula Roberts, Nurse Researcher The `effectiveness revolution′ both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered? With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research. The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coherent and complete approach to the field. The handbook has been a unique collaboration between internationally regarded clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, social scientists, health economists and ethicists. It provides the most advanced thinking and the most authoritative resource for a state of the art review of methods of evaluating health care and will be required reading for anyone involved in health services research and management.