Systems Thinking for Sustainable Healthcare Systems / Wang-Kin Chiu and Ben Y. F. Fong -- Impacts of Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Health Systems / Ben Y. F. Fong -- Sustainable Healthcare Financing for Universal Healthcare Coverage / Tommy K. C. Ng and Ben Y. F. Fong -- Development of...

Systems theory -- Systems science -- Systems approach -- Systems engineering -- Architecting through functions -- Architecting through heuristics -- Cybernetics -- Interactions -- Systems thinking -- Final thoughts.

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...

Part I. What are we trying to do; What's stopping us?; How could we approach it differently -- Defining the Sectors -- Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to do -- Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understand -- The...

This paper argues that the Covid-19 Pandemic is not merely a Health issue, but a much wider, highly complex, very dangerous phenomenon that requires a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle and needs taking a ‘big picture’ perspective, here using a ‘Systems Thinking’ approach.First, the...

1. What is this book about? -- 2. What is systems thinking? -- 3. Analysising training needs -- 4. Evaluating training -- 5. Key concepts in systems thinking -- 6. Tools to help systmes thinking -- 7. How do people learn? -- 8. Systemic approaches to analysing training needs -- 9. Specifying...