5055.0 Systems Thinking

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session attempts to approach public health challenges from the perspective of systems thinking and systems science.
Session Objectives: * Describe the trend of health seeking among micro-credit borrowers in Bangladesh. * List specific donor policies that may undermine the development of local civil society organizations. * Describe the current state of knowledge on operating at scale in global public health.
Organizer:
Mike S. Bailey, MA
Moderator:
Mike S. Bailey, MA / Co-Chair

8:30am
Shooting Oneself in the Foot: Is Donor-Imposed Bureaucracy Turning Civil Society Organizations into Malfunctioning Machines?
Maggie Huff-Rousselle, PhD, MBA, MA and Julien Toyo, MSEG
     
8:48am
Operating at scale in public health: Lessons and limitations of the current literature
Lisa R. Hirschhorn, MD, MPH, Alexander Irwin, PhD, Elizabeth Kersten and Rebecca Weintraub, MD
9:06am
Provider Behavior Under Global Budgeting: Does it evolve from Dysfunctional Tragedy of the Commons to cooperative Nash Equilibrium?
Chaokai Chang, MD, PhD Candidate, Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD and James R. Hussey, PhD
     
9:24am
A Systems Perspective on Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: The Role of Social Networks and Social Support
Cynthia M. Lakon, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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