Perturbing ongoing conversations about systems and complexity in health services and systems

摘要

The term ‘unintended consequences’ has become ubiquitous in health policy and delivery circles. We argue that this is a sign of the growing unease arising from the realization of the limitations of the still dominant reductionist research approaches, ‘evidence’ and linear thinking in relation to health system and health services policy redesigning. Complexity theorists argue that many of the problems of health services and systems will not be solved through the application of more reductionism.