Building a High-Value Health System / Rifat A. Atun, Gordon T. Moore.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Atun, Rifat A., author.
• Moore, Gordon T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Public health administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Conceptualizes a health system as a collection of interacting elements that are designed to produce outputs that lead to better population health. A system's elements both 'hang together' as a whole and continually interact and affect each other as they inter-operate to produce their final result. Systems thinking is one of the most important disciplines enabling one to understand and characterize systems that display dynamic complexity. Systems thinking in health is a framework for seeing interrelationships and repeated events rather than individual activities, for discerning patterns of change, understanding responses to policies, and for deciphering human behavior within health systems and over time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to the health of a population Assessing the health system of a country How did we get here? : historical megatrends in health and medical care Developing a vision and goals Developing plans for change : a framework for designing a high-value health system Testing the change, improving the plan Insights from systems thinking Implementing a change : adoption and diffusion So what, who cares? : the wrap-up.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford University Press, viewed May 1, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-752857-0