Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development: A Malaysian Case Study

By: Jo. M. Martins and Indra Pathmanathan and David T. Tan and Shiang Cheng Lim and Pascale Allotey

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Synopsis: Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersections and interactions of health with a multitude of other systems and determinants. This book ambitiously takes on the challenge of presenting health systems as a coherent whole, by applying a systems-thinking lens. It focuses on Malaysia as a case study to demonstrate the evolution of a health system from a low-income developing status to one of the most resilient health systems today. A rich collaboration of multidisciplinary academics working with policymakers who were at the coalface of decision-making and practitioners with decades of experience, provides a candid analysis of what worked and what did not. The result is an engaging, informative and thought-provoking intervention in the debate. This title is Open Access.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781108960120
Related ISBNs:: 9781108845205
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/07/21
Copyrighted By:: United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jo. M. Martins
Edited by:: Indra Pathmanathan
Edited by:: David T. Tan
Edited by:: Shiang Cheng Lim
Edited by:: Pascale Allotey