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 goalHealth 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
