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Healthcare is a very complex sector.Ìý It is also a sector that is growing both in terms of size and costs.Ìý In this module, you will examine how health systems have evolved not only on a national level, but locally and within organisations as well and how to use systems thinking to address healthcare challenges.Ìý Moreover, you will begin to understand the theory as well as practice that sits behind the interprofessional care approach that is system-based.

You will examine four major levels of systems in healthcare delivery – the patient, the healthcare team, the organisation (private and public as well as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, etc.) and the environment (national approach – policies, markets, regulations, etc.). You will learn how to use this approach and thinking for evaluating complex health systems for enhancing quality, creating efficiencies, changing practice, and minimising risk.Ìý This module will give you the science, theory and knowledge to see interrelationships, patterns of change, structures and processes underlying our healthcare systems and practices.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

Subject-specific knowledge:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the building blocks of health systems and how they have evolved in different countries
• Critically analyse the principles of systems thinking and complexity science and how it can be adapted to promote multi-sectoral collaboration and drive outcomes in healthcare

Intellectual, Academic and Research Skills:

• Analyse how different health system actors impact health outcomes
• Apply health systems approaches to major health challenges

Practical and Transferable Skills:

Use different graphic tools for illustrating interdependencies and systems thinking