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De Savigny, Don; Blanchet, Karl; and Adam, Taghreed. Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research: A Methodological Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2017.

Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research: A Methodological Handbook

Authors: Don De Savigny, Karl Blanchet and Taghreed Adam

Published:  October 2017 Pages: 280

eISBN: 9780335261338 | ISBN: 9780335261321
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  • List of editors and contributors
  • Introduction: scope, intended audience, and how to use this handbook
  • Systems approaches in health systems research: approaches for embedding research
  • Boundary critique: an approach for framing methodological design
  • Soft systems methodology: an approach for stakeholder and researcher reflection on a problem
  • Cynefin: a tool for situating the problem in a sense-making framework
  • Causal loop diagrams: a tool for visualizing emergent system behaviour
  • Network analysis: a tool for understanding social network behaviour of a system
  • Human systems dynamics: a tool for understanding self-organizing behaviour of actors in the system
  • Process mapping: a tool for visualizing system processes from end-to-end
  • Systems dynamics: a tool for modelling and testing solutions 173
  • Scenario technique: a tool for simulating and reflecting on alternative solutions
  • Outcome mapping: a tool for planning, monitoring, and evaluating complex interventions in systems
  • Conclusion: mapping methods to research challenges
  • Index