Complexity and health: yesterday's traditions, tomorrow's future

Title: Complexity and health: yesterday's traditions, tomorrow's future
Creator: Sturmberg, Joachim P.; Martin, Carmel M.
Relation: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Vol. 15, Issue 3, p. 543-548
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01163.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: 'If it is complex it means we don’t really understand it, and the way forward is to break the problem down into its parts to make sense of it'. This thought reflects the way we have been taught, and the way we largely practise in clinical care every day.But are we really functioning on this basis? Or is it the only way we know how to live? We all experience situations every day where the evidence does not really fit our understanding of a problem – the familiar reductionist approach limits our ability to fully explore new problems and to gain new insight. An increasingly persistent question has emerged in relation to what constitutes the knowledge we need for effective and efficient clinical care, an issue taken up by this new Forum on Systems and Complexity in Medicine and Healthcare.
Subject: complexity; health; health experience; health systems; philosopy of medicine
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917646
Identifier: uon:8370
Identifier: ISSN:1356-1294
Language: eng
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