This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization. Researchers highlight the fresh perspectives and novel approaches offered by these interdisciplinary fields in addressing the complexities of global, national, and community health challenges in the 21st century. With the implications that these emerging fields hold for health still relatively underexplored, researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, including physiological, social, environmental, clinical, prevention, educational, organizational, finance, and policy domains, aim in this book to suggest future directions in health care and highlight recent advances in basic and clinical physiology, education, policy-making, and leadership.

 

Among the topics discussed:

• Impact of genomic heterogeneity on bio-emergent properties
• Harnessing Big Data to improve health services
• Decision-making of women in violent relationships
• Co-producing healthcare interventions
• A socio-ecological solution to physician burnout