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The Commission on Health Research for Development [2] and the Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research [3] both highlighted the urgent need for focusing research methods, funding and practice towards addressing health inequities and embracing inter-disciplinary and intersectoral thinking.
As health care continues to evolve, the importance of HSS is expected to grow. [21] Efforts to integrate HSS into medical education and practice will be essential for preparing physicians to navigate the complexities of modern health care delivery, advocate for their patients, and contribute to improving the health of populations.
Systems thinking is a way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been used as a way of exploring and developing effective action in complex contexts, [ 3 ] enabling systems change .
It is not a discipline to be put in the same set as the others, it is a meta-discipline whose subject matter can be applied within virtually any other discipline.” Source: Checkland, P. (1993) Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. (p. 5). “The systems paradigm is concerned with wholes and their properties.
Critical systems thinking is a systemic intervention's approach in which it is based on the systems thinking framework. [5] According to Gerald Midgley, critical systems thinking is based on three 'themes for debate' for further research which are the improvement, critical awareness and methodological pluralism. [1]
The Soft Systems Methodology was developed primarily by Peter Checkland, through 10 years of research with his colleagues, such as Brian Wilson.The method was derived from numerous earlier systems engineering processes, primarily from the fact traditional 'hard' systems thinking was not able to account for larger organisational issues, with many complex relationships.
DSRP has been used to apply systems thinking to the fields of evaluation and program planning, including a National Science Foundation-funded initiative to evaluate of large-scale science, technology, engineering, and math education programs, [17] as well as evaluations of the complexity science education programs of the Santa Fe Institute.
Following on from the recommendations of the 1996 WHO Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research, [1] which recognised the role of research in strengthening health policies and the overall development of health systems, a group of global health leaders including senior scientists, policymakers, and representatives of various agencies and programs with a stake in health policy and systems research ...