Embracing Complexity in Health: The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy

This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice research education and health system organization. Researchers highlight the fresh perspectives and novel approaches offered by these interdisciplinary fields in addressing the complexities of global national and community health challenges in the 21st century. With the implications that these emerging fields hold for health still relatively underexplored researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including physiological social environmental clinical prevention educational organizational finance and policy domains aim in this book to suggest future directions in health care and highlight recent advances in basic and clinical physiology education policy-making and leadership.Among the topics discussed:Impact of genomic heterogeneity on bio-emergent properties Harnessing Big Data to improve health services Decision-making of women in violent relationships Co-producing healthcare interventions A socio-ecological solution to physician burnout Embracing Complexity in Health: The Transformation of Science Practice and Policy is a highly relevant resource to practitioners in the field students instructors and policy makers and also should find an engaged audience among health and disease researchers healthcare planners health system financiers health system administrators health services administrators health professional educators and other health professionals. The trans- and interdisciplinary natures of health and health care are fostering a broad discourse amongst all concerned with improving patient care in an equitable and sustainable way.