Healthcare services provision follows a pathway of complex adaptive systems. This means that the various components and variables of a healthcare system interact differently in different situations and result in different overall results. Innovative thinking centres around the ability to take a step back to review this interplay using a “bird’s eye view” and creating solutions that match problems.
In public healthcare, and especially in emerging countries, there has been a myriad of sustained efforts at improving the health of populations through different approaches for various disease burdens. This has had mixed results.
