Systems Thinking for Global Health
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Abstract
Abstract Systems-thinking is a useful approach to deepen our understanding of the linkages, relationships, interactions, and behaviours that, together, comprise and shape our health systems. Offering a comprehensive range of opinion and scholarship from experts located across the world (Europe, North-America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania), spanning a wide range of disciplines, this book presents a compilation of case studies, prescriptive or retrospective reflections, conceptual pieces, interventions, and methodological approaches to guide and inspire global health practitioners in their application of systems-thinking approaches across topics familiar to the field of Global Health including, but not limited to, maternal and child health, disability, social inclusion, malaria, TB, HIV, and other infectious diseases, tobacco control, mental health, human resources for health, healthcare decentralisation, health information systems, health in conflict and/or fragile contexts, health system strengthening, quality improvement, and nuclear disarmament.