Embracing Complexity in Health The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy

Introduction.- Max Planck’s Challenge for Health, Health Care and the Healthcare System.- Fail Small, Fail Often: An Outsider’s View of Physiologic Complexity.- Physiology.- A Puzzling Question: How Can Different Phenotypes Possibly Have Indistinguishable Disease Symptoms?.- Complexity Sciences Dramatically Improve Biomarker Research and Use.- Analyzing Complex Medical Image Information: Convolution versus Wavelets in a Neural Net.- The Mechanisms of How Genomic Heterogeneity Impacts Bio-Emergent Properties: The Challenges for Precision Medicine.- Health Care.- The Health System Quartet: Four Basic Systems-Cure, Care, Heal, and Deal-to Foster the Co-Production of Sustained Health.- Humans and Big Data-New Hope? Harnessing the Power of Person-Centered Data Analytics.- Is Decision-making of Women Concerning their Violent Relationships Truly Nonlinear… and Why Is That?.- Co-Producing Health Care Interventions: Transforming Transdisciplinary Research to Develop Health Care Service to Meet the Needs of Patients with Complex Problems.- Education & Leadership.- Coordinated Tension: The “Secret Sauce” to Enable Decision Making in a Global Health Complex Adaptive System.- A Systems Perspective for Measuring Features of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Producing Teams (TDKPTs).- How and Why Effective Leaders Construct and Evolve Structural Attractors to Overcome Spatial, Temporal and Social Complexity.- Physician Burnout: A U.S. Public Health Crisis in Need of a Socio-Ecological Solution.- Health Systems & Policy.- Organisational Relativity-Changing Our Perspective on Health and Healthcare.- A Systems Model of HIT Induced Complexity.- Salutogenesis Revisited.- Disappointment-Driven System-Improvement in Healthcare.- A Study on the Modeling of Obesity. The Programme.