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WHAT IS A SYSTEM?
Complete solutions for health involves looking at all aspects of a problem with systems thinking: how all parts of a system work together. Systems include all the parts of the body, the environment, and health care resources, and how each subsystem fits together as a larger system.
Holistic health is a kind of theory of systems that sees the connections between mind, body, spirit and ecology.
Systems thinking looks at all the complex variables shaping the health of the individual as an alternative to blaming people with complex problems that the medical systems cannot diagnose. Many chronically ill people have the experience of being blamed by doctors and family for being sick.
The fact that life is organized as systems means that things are complex and knowledge is incomplete. This means that authority is not absolute but should be relative to what people know. Some doctors interpret the unknown to be a threat to their authority: Either the doctor does not know and therefore he is wrong, or the patient is wrong and their mystery illness is in their head.
The truth is our knowledge is always incomplete due the complexity of systems and unpredictability of environments. The medical paradigm has not had a complete enough view of the body as a system to understand chronic health problems. Each individual is a unique case with unique complex solutions. No paradigm is complete although some paradigms are more open to creating new knowledge to solve problems. For example, most doctors and alternative health practitioners alke are still focused on bio chemistry and missiing the physics of nutrition from sunlight and earth's magnetic fields along with the toxicity of artifical light and various kinds of electro magnetic fiedls, radio frequencies, etc.
Science is sometimes considered a complete body of knowledge that gives doctors more authority than anyone can have. It is not the fault of individual doctors either, but of the system of knowledge.
A key principle of total quality is “management by fact” as an alternative to bureaucratic and professional authority. Ideally, decisions are made about the facts of what are the human needs and what are effectiveness of means in meeting those needs. Anyone can contribute and what the patient has to say is important. Knowledge is power, and collective knowledge with everyone contributing is more power. Consumers and patients are taking responsibility for their lives with more research, even if their own paradigm is still somewhat limited.
Statistical Proof That Systems Cause Most Problems
The logic of systems thinking is illustrated by a totally different paradigm of statistics used in six sigma and total quality.
This is applied statistics, not academic statistics that is focused on correlations and probably theory.
Applied statistics looks at the variations of systems, because variation--something not aligned within customer specifications--is the “enemy of quality.” That something could be the size of parts of a car that must fit together. In medicine the wrong dose of medicine, either too much or not enough.
Variation is natural but too much variation is due to either the design of products and production systems or individual operators within them. Applied statistics known as “statistical process control” measures variations in performance to control and improve quality. The first question is “out of control” variation due the system or an individual’s mistakes within the system? The rule of thumb is that 85% will be due the design of the system created my managers and engineers, versus 15% due to workers not following work standards properly. Individuals are blamed when managers lack a systems perspective and do not measure variation.
In medicine patients can be similarly blamed. The systems to blame is not necessarily the medical system, although sometimes that, too, but toxic environments concerning industry, agriculture, home, etc.
In health coaching statistical process control is not necessary but illustrates the point of systems thinking and variation.
The first line of defense of defects due to variation is conformance to standards:
As Deming said, “Some of the most important numbers are unknowable.”
The biggest problem in creating complete health solutions is a lack of enough effective components to choose from and a method to customize solutions for individuals. Especially if whole areas are missing like EMF electromagnetic field protection, which is not a matter of individual sensitivity but part the system / environment in which we live and is worsening progressively with things like G5 for cell phones.
Effective solutions require focusing on the right things, starting with root causes.
Complete solutions for health involves looking at all aspects of a problem with systems thinking: how all parts of a system work together. Systems include all the parts of the body, the environment, and health care resources, and how each subsystem fits together as a larger system.
Holistic health is a kind of theory of systems that sees the connections between mind, body, spirit and ecology.
Systems thinking looks at all the complex variables shaping the health of the individual as an alternative to blaming people with complex problems that the medical systems cannot diagnose. Many chronically ill people have the experience of being blamed by doctors and family for being sick.
The fact that life is organized as systems means that things are complex and knowledge is incomplete. This means that authority is not absolute but should be relative to what people know. Some doctors interpret the unknown to be a threat to their authority: Either the doctor does not know and therefore he is wrong, or the patient is wrong and their mystery illness is in their head.
The truth is our knowledge is always incomplete due the complexity of systems and unpredictability of environments. The medical paradigm has not had a complete enough view of the body as a system to understand chronic health problems. Each individual is a unique case with unique complex solutions. No paradigm is complete although some paradigms are more open to creating new knowledge to solve problems. For example, most doctors and alternative health practitioners alke are still focused on bio chemistry and missiing the physics of nutrition from sunlight and earth's magnetic fields along with the toxicity of artifical light and various kinds of electro magnetic fiedls, radio frequencies, etc.
Science is sometimes considered a complete body of knowledge that gives doctors more authority than anyone can have. It is not the fault of individual doctors either, but of the system of knowledge.
A key principle of total quality is “management by fact” as an alternative to bureaucratic and professional authority. Ideally, decisions are made about the facts of what are the human needs and what are effectiveness of means in meeting those needs. Anyone can contribute and what the patient has to say is important. Knowledge is power, and collective knowledge with everyone contributing is more power. Consumers and patients are taking responsibility for their lives with more research, even if their own paradigm is still somewhat limited.
Statistical Proof That Systems Cause Most Problems
The logic of systems thinking is illustrated by a totally different paradigm of statistics used in six sigma and total quality.
This is applied statistics, not academic statistics that is focused on correlations and probably theory.
Applied statistics looks at the variations of systems, because variation--something not aligned within customer specifications--is the “enemy of quality.” That something could be the size of parts of a car that must fit together. In medicine the wrong dose of medicine, either too much or not enough.
Variation is natural but too much variation is due to either the design of products and production systems or individual operators within them. Applied statistics known as “statistical process control” measures variations in performance to control and improve quality. The first question is “out of control” variation due the system or an individual’s mistakes within the system? The rule of thumb is that 85% will be due the design of the system created my managers and engineers, versus 15% due to workers not following work standards properly. Individuals are blamed when managers lack a systems perspective and do not measure variation.
In medicine patients can be similarly blamed. The systems to blame is not necessarily the medical system, although sometimes that, too, but toxic environments concerning industry, agriculture, home, etc.
In health coaching statistical process control is not necessary but illustrates the point of systems thinking and variation.
The first line of defense of defects due to variation is conformance to standards:
- Did the client comply with their program to implement 100%?
- Did the coach apply correctly their knowledge they have form diagnostics procedures to formulation of programs (standards) to create an individualized program for the client?
- Is the system / standard adequate by design: is the set of solution complete enough for the individual client?
As Deming said, “Some of the most important numbers are unknowable.”
The biggest problem in creating complete health solutions is a lack of enough effective components to choose from and a method to customize solutions for individuals. Especially if whole areas are missing like EMF electromagnetic field protection, which is not a matter of individual sensitivity but part the system / environment in which we live and is worsening progressively with things like G5 for cell phones.
Effective solutions require focusing on the right things, starting with root causes.
