Healthcare reform: the need for a complex adaptive systems approach

Title: Healthcare reform: the need for a complex adaptive systems approach
Creator: Sturmberg, Joachim P.; O'Halloran, Di M.; Martin, Carmel M.
Relation: Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health p. 827-853
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4998-0_47
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: The notion of health care, and in particular primary health care, being a public good was strongly expressed in the Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978 [1]. If this position is accepted, the provision of health care should be participatory, assist individuals to remain or become socially and economically productive, promote social justice, and also involve the food, education, employment, and social sectors. It follows that it is fundamentally Government's responsibility to provide the policies and ensure the necessary resources to establish comprehensive national health systems and health-promoting environments regardless of which jurisdictions, sectors, or organisations are providing health services.
Subject: healthcare reform; national health systems; health services; government
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1306974
Identifier: uon:21299
Identifier: ISBN:9781461449973
Language: eng