How to Facilitate Social Contagion?
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good under...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
2013-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Health Policy and Management |
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| Online Access: | http://ijhpm.com/?_action=showPDF&article=2765&_ob=0694e709732eab8596b7e5d1e1727f55&fileName=full_text.pdf. |
| Summary: | Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provide a new avenue to analyse the diffusion of innovations within a health system or a health organisation and analyse the structure and the properties of a health system. Evidence has been generated on the necessity of not only identifying the actors of a system but also qualifying the relationships between these actors. |
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| ISSN: | 2322-5939 |