Improvement science has guided my health improvement work for more than three decades. Deming’s definition of a system includes the critical understanding that a system’s outputs (results) are a function of the attributes of the system itself–“Every system is perfectly designed to give the results it gets.” (Outcomes, the impact or import of outputs forContinue reading “Improvement vs. Evolution”
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How is Housing Security a System that can Improve?
To improve a system, it may be helpful to frame three components of that system: 1) how we make what the system provides, 2) what society needs, and 3) how we improve what we make in the system. A system is an interdependent group of people, items, process, products and services that have a commonContinue reading “How is Housing Security a System that can Improve?”
Introduce Myself: Jim Schlosser
To share, to learn about local health equity improvement in New Hampshire. Think global, act local. Box: All models are wrong, some are useful. But… Kuhn (from Hirschman): A model is never defeated by facts, however damaging, but only by another model. The realist’s assertion: C + M = O In what context, what works…andContinue reading “Introduce Myself: Jim Schlosser”
NH Collective Health Impact 