Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Systems Within Health Policy and Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Framing and Revisiting Ethical Policy with a Systems Perspective

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Public, Private, and “Stepping on Toes” in Healthcare

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 23-27

   4. The Menagerie of Social Agents: People and Their Connections

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 29-41

   5. Communication and Politics in Healthcare

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 43-50

   6. Health Systems and Policymaking as the “Price Is Right”

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 51-56

   7. Ethical and Systematic Approaches to Health Policy

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 57-60

   8. Health Disparities in Public Health

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 61-64

3. Applications of Modeling to Health Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Mental and Simulated Models in Health Policy Making

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 67-74

4. A Brief Exploration of the Complexity of Health Disparities (As Humanistically as Possible)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Social Disparity, Policy, and Sharing in Public Health

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 77-85

   3. The Concentric Model of Health-Bound Networks

      • Michele Battle-Fisher

      Pages 87-96

5. Back Matter

   Pages 97-100

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​​​​This book looks at health policy through the lens of public versus private: population health versus the somatic, social, or emotional experiences of a patient. Rather than presenting policy/ethics as overly technical, this book takes a novel approach of framing public and private health in terms of political philosophy, ethics, and popular examples. Each chapter ties back to the general ethics or political literature as applicable, which are not customarily parts of the current public health curriculum. The author's work on the Orgcomplexity blog has touched on this subject by systemically exploring public policy issues, and the tone of this book mimics the blog with an extension of the arguments.

• complexity in healthcare
• health policy
• health policy analysis
• politics of health
• public health ethics
• systems thinking and health

“This interdisciplinary overview of current public health issues focuses on healthcare systems, infectious disease, health disparities, healthcare policy, policy development, and the effects of those policies. … The audience is anyone interested in public health and healthcare policy. … This is a useful book for gaining a basic understanding of the multifaceted features of public health policies and their implications.” (Tyler Zahrli, Doody’s Book Reviews, December, 2015)

• Wright State University, Kettering, USA

  Michele Battle-Fisher

Policies and ethics