Abstract
This chapter outlines the Australian health system’s current responses to climate change using the World Health Organization’s building blocks of health systems: leadership and governance; health workforce; health information systems; essential medical products and technologies; service delivery; and financing. Noting the need for ongoing rapid system transformation to meet the climate challenge, the chapter then discusses systems approaches to transformation, using the six phases of the Transition Dynamics Framework (issue emergence; issue definition; shared understanding, issue agreement; knowledge finding and dissemination; policy and practice diffusion; embedding new practice) as an illustration.This chapter outlines the Australian health system’s current responses to climate change using the World Health Organization’s building blocks of health systems: leadership and governance; health workforce; health information systems; essential medical products and technologies; service delivery; and financing. Noting the need for ongoing rapid system transformation to meet the climate challenge, the chapter then discusses systems approaches to transformation, using the six phases of the Transition Dynamics Framework (issue emergence; issue definition; shared understanding, issue agreement; knowledge finding and dissemination; policy and practice diffusion; embedding new practice) as an illustration.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability |
| Editors | Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski, Carolynn K‑lynn Smith |
| Place of Publication | Abingdon UK |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 110-129 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040000786, 9781032701196 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032410654, 9781032701165 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
