This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The
State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and …

Results: Within these studies, twenty types of barriers have been identified and then
categorised in six groups (barriers related to administration and regulation, barriers related …

Objective The World Health Organization (WHO) recently proposed an Integrated Care for
Older People approach to guide health systems and services in better supporting functional …

Background There are calls for better application of theory in health services research.
Research exploring knowledge translation and interprofessional collaboration are two …

Background Complexity thinking is increasingly being embraced in healthcare, which is
often described as a complex adaptive system (CAS). Applying CAS to healthcare as an …

▪ Abstract The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of nonlinear dynamical systems,
has recently become a major focus of interdisciplinary research in the social and natural …

Purpose Inform health system improvements by summarizing components of integrated care
in older populations. Identify key implementation barriers and facilitators. Data sources A …

Methods: The eight articles constituted our empirical material. Meta-ethnography was used
as a method to integrate, translate, and synthesize the themes and concepts contained in …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) dramatically unveiled the fragile state of the world's
health and social systems–the lack of emergency health crisis preparedness (under …

Health care organizations that deliver health care to a population are a major constituent of
health care systems in many countries. Although some of the components of a health care …