Integrative Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System   [Archived Catalog]
2017-2018 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   

MBM 5564 - Integrative Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System


This introductory course provides students with an overview of healthcare policy and introduces complexity theory as an approach to further an integrative healthcare agenda. Course materials provide students with an overview of U.S. contemporary healthcare policy and then introduce complexity principles as one subset of systems thinking. Through both theory and practice, using principles from complexity, and assignments that combine theory and application, students will learn to recognize dynamic widespread phenomena and individual human interactions in basic ways that inform better understanding and communication, particularly as these relate to integrative healthcare. This perspective offers a valuable foundation for designing or changing complex human systems like businesses, hospitals and healthcare systems, and taking on an advocacy role in complementary integrative medicine. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SU - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.