Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health

1. Complexity in Health - An Introduction.- 2. Complexity, uncertainty and mess as the links between science and the humanities in healthcare.- Part 1 - Complexity Theory and Methods.- 3. Understanding Complex Systems.- 4. The Complex Nature of Knowledge.- 5. Mathematical Principles: Tales of Tails.- 6. Modelling.- 7. A methodology for the analysis of medical data.- 8. Psychological Rhythmicities.- 9. Modeling Illness and Recovery with Nonlinear Dynamics.- Part 2 - Dynamics in Human Health.- 10. Homeostasis: The Dynamic Self-regulatory Process that Maintains Health and Buffers against Disease.- 11. Fractals in Physiology & Medicine.- 12. Bio-complexity: challenging reductionism.- Part 3 - Concepts of Health.- 13. Trying to Make Sense of Health.- 14. Picture Health.- 15. Health - A personal complex-adaptive state.- 16. Understanding Health By Building Better Bio-Medical Models.- 17. Health - a systems and complexity based definition.- Part 4 - Clinical Application.- 18. Complexities of the Consultation.- 19. Inflammation through a Psychoneuroimmunological Lens.- 20. Diabetes control: insights from complexity science.- 21. Complexity and the onset of psychosis.- 22. Understanding intimate partner violence through its dynamics.- 23. Multi-level interdependencies and constraints in panic disorder: Many triggers, few responses.- 24. Nonlinear Relations of Cardiovascular Risk Factors to Neuropsychological Function and Dementia.- 25. Pain and Complex Adaptive System Theory.- 26. Complexity in Movement Disorders: A Systems Approach to Intervention.- 27. Avoidable hospitalizations in older adults.- 28. Continuous Multiorgan Variability Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients - Complexity Science at the Bedside.- Part 5 - Health Services.- 29. An overview of complexity theory: understanding primary care as a complex adaptive system.- 30. Real-time Analytics and Quality of Care.- 31. Medical Sociology and Case-Based Complexity Science: A User's Guide.- 32. The Drug Prescription Process: a Network Medicine Approach.- 33. Applications of Complex Dynamics, an Approach to Refractory Health Policy Interventions.- 34. Designing for Health Promotion, Social Innovation and Complexity: The CoNEKTR Model for Wicked Problems.- 35. The Dynamical Behaviours of Diseases in Africa.- Part 6 - Health System.- 36. Health Transition Funds Initiatives: Implications for Health System Reform and Evaluation.- 37. Putting complexity to work - supporting practitioners in health systems.- 38. Implementing Adaptive Health Practice - A Complexity-Based Philosophy of Health Care.- 39. Mayo Clinic: Making Complex Healthcare Simpler.- 40. Embracing Uncertainty: Complexity Inspired Innovations at Billings Clinic.- 41. A Complexity Science Perspective of Organizational Behavior in Clinical Microsystems.- 42. Reverse the Epidemic Tides of Unhealthy Habits: Personal, Professional and Leadership Challenges.- 43. Health Professions Education: Complexity, Teaching and Learning.- 44. Understanding Clinical Complexity through conversational learning in medical social networks: Implementing User Driven Health care.- Part 7 - The Future of Healthcare.- 45. Making sense - from complex systems theories, models and analytics to adapting actions and practices in health and health care.- 46. Modeling the Paradox of Primary Care.- 47. Health Care Reform - the need for a complex adaptive systems approach.- 48. A Complexity Science Approach to Healthcare Costs and Quality.- 49. Opportunities in Delivery of Preventive Services in Retail Settings.- 50. Complexity Science in the Future of Behavioral Medicine.- 51. Systems Medicine - A New Model for Healthcare.- Epilogue.