Integrating Systems and Sectors toward Population Health Solutions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 428
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Systems science and cross-sector partnerships are gaining traction in the population health sciences. Systems thinking assesses a problem from a comprehensive holistic view of the overall challenge and does not focus narrowly on a single technical solution (Ackoff, 1981). Organizations are purposeful, with a set of goals, objectives, and, frequently, ideals. Complex adaptive systems of human organizations have characteristics over all times and at all scales of being; they are dynamic, massively entangled, scale-independent, transformative, and emergent (Eoyang and Berkas, 1998). Organizations themselves are part of larger purposeful systems with their own goals, objectives, and (often) ideals (Ackoff, 1974, 1981). Yet systems go beyond organizations. Despite the recognition of integrating systems and sectors toward population health solutions, collective efforts toward shared goals, at least in U.S. health and healthcare activities, are often uncoordinated, fragmented, and misaligned, lacking measurement to track change that matters most (Institute of Medicine, 2009; Institute of Medicine, 2015). Papers addressing the topics of systems science and/or cross-sector efforts to improve population health are invited for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with a practical focus on the design or implementation of these integrated systems and sectors, particularly where the scope is broader than an individual project or singular outcome, and where possible with an emphasis on demonstrated empirical impact. Papers with perspectives or applications relating to government, industry, academia, or community responses are welcomed.
Dr. Julie Kapp
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- population health
- population health management
- systems theory
- public–private sector partnerships
- health impact
- implementation science
- community participation
- vulnerable population
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