Health systems |
Health systems are complex, adaptive, and dynamic systems. System thinking works to reveal the underlying characteristics and relationships among the key functions of health systems such as governance and leadership; financing; human resources; informatics; medicines and technologies; and service delivery. By applying systems thinking to health systems new synergies can be revealed and exploited to leverage systems to higher levels of performance. We use systems dynamic modeling to explore these tipping points. To assist these models, we develop methods for measuring systems effectiveness of health interventions, considering all health system factors that determine the actual effectiveness of an efficacious. We also develop and apply methods to evaluate health interventions as well as health system interventions in real-world health systems.