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Cities: Complexity, theory and history. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 In recent decades researchers in a variety of disciplines have developed a new "urban science," the central goal of which is to build general theory regarding the social processes underlying urbanization.
Scott G Ortman +2 more
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Application of complexity theory in health and social care research: a scoping review. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Background Complexity theory has been chosen by many authors as a suitable lens through which to examine health and social care. Despite its potential value, many empirical investigations apply the theory in a tokenistic manner without engaging with its ...
Carroll Á +4 more
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Complexity theory of psychopathology.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 2020 There is a renewed interest for complex adaptive system approaches that can account for the inherently complex and dynamic nature of psychopathology. Yet a theory of psychopathology grounded in the principles of complex adaptive systems is lacking. Here,
Merlijn Olthof +4 more
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Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences
Systems, 2019 Systems theory has been challenged in the recent literature due to its perceived disconnection from today’s research and practice demands. Moving away from the reductionist frameworks and the complicated domain predominated by known unknowns and order, a
John R Turner, Rose Baker
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Being pragmatic about healthcare complexity: our experiences applying complexity theory and pragmatism to health services research. [PDF]
BMC Med, 2018 BackgroundThe healthcare system has proved a challenging environment for innovation, especially in the area of health services management and research.
Long KM, McDermott F, Meadows GN.
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A complexity theory-informed COPC approach to evaluation of mining health programmes [PDF]
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineBackground: Conventional evaluation approaches are often designed for predictable, linear systems and fail to capture the non-linear dynamics of complex community health interventions.
Wayne Renkin, Johannes F.M. Hugo
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Does application of complexity theory simplify concepts of psychiatry: Analogies and insights [PDF]
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2021 Scientific curiosity has not been able to explain the cause of psychiatric illness based on primarily biological or social paradigm. Available literatures were explored to understand causality of psychiatric illness from perspective of physics. Theory of
Jyoti Prakash, K Chatterjee, S Shankar
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Scoping review of complexity theory in health services research. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2016 BackgroundThere are calls for better application of theory in health services research. Research exploring knowledge translation and interprofessional collaboration are two examples, and in both areas, complexity theory has been identified as potentially
Thompson DS +4 more
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Advancing Complexity Theory as a Qualitative Research Methodology
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, The, 2018 Although complexity theory is increasingly used to explain and understand complex health-system behavior, little is known about utilizing complexity theory to augment qualitative research methods. We advance this field by describing our use of complexity
Elizabeth Eppel +2 more
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Complexity, Governance & Networks, 2017 In this article, we present a critical discussion of complexity theory. We ask: what does it really offer policy studies? We suggest that its stated advantages-- interdisciplinarity, theoretical novelty, and empirical advance--are generally exaggerated ...
Paul Cairney, Robert Geyer
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