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.
