Overview: Written by international experts from health services research, primary care, management studies, systems science, and organizational behavior.Applies systems science theory to population health and hThis book is an introduction to health care as a complex adaptive system, a system that feeds back on itself. The first section introduces systems and complexity theory from a science, historical, epistemological, and technical perspective, describing the principles and mathematics. Subsequent sections build on the health applications of systems science theory, from human physiology to m
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