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  2. Health management system - Wikipedia

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    The health management system (HMS) is an evolutionary medicine regulative process proposed by Nicholas Humphrey [1] [2] in which actuarial assessment of fitness and economic-type cost–benefit analysis determine the body's regulation of its physiology and health.

  3. Viable system theory - Wikipedia

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    Systems in general, but also human activity systems, are able to survive (in other words they become viable) when they develop: (a) patterns of self-organisation that lead to self-organisation through morphogenesis and complexity; (b) patterns for long term evolution towards autonomy; (c) patterns that lead to the functioning of viable systems.

  4. Person-centered systems theory - Wikipedia

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    The person-centered systems theory (German: Personzentrierte Systemtheorie) is a multi-level concept aiming at the reconstruction and explanation of human experience, action and interaction processes in such a way that inappropriate reductions to the focus of individual therapeutic schools of thought are avoided as far as possible.

  5. Mood swing - Wikipedia

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    The dynamics of mood, mood patterns for long times are commonly erratic, [12] labile [13] or instable, also known as euthymic. [14] Although the term of mood swing is unspecific, it may be used to describe a pattern where mood goes down from positive to negative valency immediately (without delay in baseline) at specific periods. [15]

  6. Mental disorder - Wikipedia

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    A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [6] a mental health condition, [7] or a psychiatric disability, [2] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [8]

  7. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A concern for the health system is that the health gains do not accrue equally to the entire population. In the US, disparities in healthcare and health outcomes are widespread. [ 176 ] Minorities are more likely to develop serious illnesses (e.g., type 2 diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer) and less likely to have access to quality ...

  8. System archetype - Wikipedia

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    A system archetype is a pattern of behavior of a system. Systems expressed by circles of causality have therefore similar structure. Identifying a system archetype and finding the leverage enables efficient changes in a system. The basic system archetypes and possible solutions of the problems are mentioned in the Examples section. [1]

  9. Population health policies and interventions - Wikipedia

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    Policy for population health "sets priorities" [2] and are a "guide to action to change what would otherwise occur". [2] Policies are based on "social sciences of sociology, economics, demography, public health, anthropology, and epidemiology" [4] and determine how outcomes can be accomplished are implemented at various levels.