The Construction of Social Health Systems

Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. João Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social nature of health systems. He traces health systems back to their origins in Ancient Greece and inv...

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description Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. João Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social nature of health systems. He traces health systems back to their origins in Ancient Greece and investigates their development throughout history, focusing on the notion of systems’ self-reference, a constitutive feature of social systems. The study is built on Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory and his outline of health as social system. Valuable for health professionals, it discusses communication as lifeblood for making health systems self-referential.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1687432025-11-01T05:11:48Z The Construction of Social Health Systems Costa, João Health System History of Medicine Public Health Self-Reference thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. João Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social nature of health systems. He traces health systems back to their origins in Ancient Greece and investigates their development throughout history, focusing on the notion of systems’ self-reference, a constitutive feature of social systems. The study is built on Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory and his outline of health as social system. Valuable for health professionals, it discusses communication as lifeblood for making health systems self-referential. 2025-11-01T05:11:46Z 2025-11-01T05:11:46Z 2025-10-31T16:02:31Z 2025 book ONIX_20251031T165619_9783839440285_25 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107983 9783839440285 9783837679540 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168743 eng Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107983/1/9783839440285.pdf transcript Verlag transcript 10.14361/9783839440285 10.14361/9783839440285 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c 9783839440285 9783837679540 transcript 324 open access
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The Construction of Social Health Systems
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