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

Comment

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

Comment
  • 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

Comment
  • 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

Comment

Declared gap No sources have been cited.

Boundary cases

Comment

Declared gap No boundary cases have been recorded.

Uncertainty

Comment
  • 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.

Rule 01

At most seven

Not applicable. This node is not a division.

Not applicable
Rule 02

Mutually exclusive

A judgement about whether the parts overlap. Not automated.

Not checked
Rule 03

Collectively exhaustive

A judgement about what the parts leave out. Not automated.

Not checked
Rule 04

Equal abstraction

A judgement about whether the parts answer the same question type. Not automated.

Not checked
Rule 05

Decomposable or terminal

No children and not marked terminal — unfinished, rather than an endpoint.

Warning
Rule 06

Justified in writing

4 of the six fields carry content. The rest are declared gaps.

Warning

Proposals

What has been argued about this node.

Nothing has been decided against this node. That is not the same as nothing being wrong with it.

Discussion

What has been said about this node.

Nothing published on this node yet.