Systems Atlas Project
Level 0
Healthcare
healthcare
Justification
What has been written down.
Six fields are required of every node. Empty ones are shown as declared gaps — a gap means nothing has been written, not that there is nothing to write.
Definition
Organisations, people, infrastructures and governance arrangements whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health, including the core system functions that deliver and finance care.
Inclusion
- care delivery infrastructure and pathways
- workforce and professional regulation structures
- financing and purchasing structures
- governance and stewardship structures
- supply systems for medicines and technologies integral to care
Exclusion
- biological mechanisms inside the human body — goes to human-biological
- general social determinants where the primary intent is not health — goes to political
- model abstractions — lens model
Sources
Declared gap No sources have been cited.
Boundary cases
Declared gap No boundary cases have been recorded.
Uncertainty
- This domain is defined by primary intent, which is teleological rather than structural and fails the stated structural test. Intent is the kind of thing a lens asks about.
- The boundary with the technological domain is unexamined.
Rules
Whether this division survives the six rules.
Rules 1, 5 and 6 are checked by the validator and reported here. Rules 2, 3 and 4 are judgements about meaning and cannot be automated — no state is claimed for them. The rules themselves are set out in the method.
At most seven
Not applicable. This node is not a division.
Mutually exclusive
A judgement about whether the parts overlap. Not automated.
Collectively exhaustive
A judgement about what the parts leave out. Not automated.
Equal abstraction
A judgement about whether the parts answer the same question type. Not automated.
Decomposable or terminal
No children and not marked terminal — unfinished, rather than an endpoint.
Justified in writing
4 of the six fields carry content. The rest are declared gaps.