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Making sense of polarities in health organizations for policy and leadership
Author(s) -
Martin Carmel M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01529.x
Subject(s) - schema (genetic algorithms) , public relations , health care , complex adaptive system , context (archaeology) , health policy , common sense , sociology , knowledge management , psychology , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , machine learning , law , biology
Making sense of complex adaptive clinical practice and health systems is a pressing challenge as health services continue to struggle to adapt to changing internal and external constraints. In this Forum, we begin with Dervin's Sense‐Making theories and research in communications. This provides a conceptual and theoretical context for this editions research on comparative complexity of family medicine consultations in the USA, models for adaptive leadership in clinical care and social networking to make sense of health promotion challenges for young people. Finally, a Sense‐Making schema is proposed.