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Journal article
Embracing the Complexity of Primary Health Care: System-Based Tools and Strategies for Researching the Case Management Process
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Vol.14, pp.2817-2826
06/10/2021
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Abstract
The provision of health care is frequently a complex process, and favourable clinical outcomes are dependent on the effective management of this complexity. Contemporary medicine and health care practices that are biomedically aligned have been informed by a reductionist paradigm, potentially creating a misalignment between health care and the human organism as a complex adaptive system. Complexity science is increasingly gaining momentum within the academic literature and is being employed across a wide range of scientific disciplines, although this is less evident in medicine. Limited evidence was found within the literature of a complexity science framework being used to explore and inform individual health care practices; in this paper, this gap will be explored through consideration of the use of strategies and tools (specifically mind maps, computer-generated network mappings, exploratory data analysis, and computer-derived network analysis) which are congruent with a complexity science framework. This information may be useful to researchers investigating health care provision and to clinicians wishing to incorporate a complexity sensibility within their practice.
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- Title
- Embracing the Complexity of Primary Health Care: System-Based Tools and Strategies for Researching the Case Management Process
- Creators
- Kim D Graham - University of Technology SydneyAmie Steel - University of Technology SydneyJon Wardle - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Vol.14, pp.2817-2826
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991012978058602368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Graham et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
- Academic Unit
- School of Health and Human Sciences; National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article