Innovative Systems Approaches to Healthcare Systems
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Practice in Social Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 August 2025 | Viewed by 1263
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today’s challenges demand an appreciation of interconnectivities between systems and an understanding of how our healthcare systems are impacted by other systems, such as economic, sociocultural, and ecological, that may constrain or facilitate their efficacy. We have witnessed a heightened awareness of healthcare system failures that are threatening population health through events including, but not limited to, changes in climate, the spread of disease to pandemic levels, food uncertainty, malnourishment, population displacement, socioeconomic disparities, and poor mental health. In this Special Issue, we aim to gain a better understanding of system failures as they pertain to health. A connectivist approach that pays mindful attention to interdependencies not only within but across systems must be used to identify and frame problems, evaluate and synthesize evidence, and shape solutions. As such, we invite contributions that will challenge and reframe traditional ways of thinking, open space to share ideas through critical debate, inspire new possibilities, and celebrate the contributions being made towards the improvement of health systems worldwide. We wish to explore and better understand how we may create systems that can proactively address and adapt to current and future health challenges.
Submissions that address a broad range of topics are welcomed, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Challenges and opportunities in healthcare interdependence and how they may affect healthcare systems;
- How the principles of systems thinking and complexity may be applied to strengthen health systems;
- Adaptive and self-organizing systems;
- Contributions of primary care to health systems and health;
- Novel data collection tools and methods;
- Multi-level networks in healthcare systems;
- Policy implications associated with intersectoral healthcare interventions.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Peter Tsasis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health system complexity
- interconnected networks
- multidisciplinary perspectives
- integrated solutions
- systems theory
- interdependencies
- system failures
- complex adaptive systems
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