A systemic view of family health

Abstract

This issue is based on the premise that examining health from a systems point of view provides a different lens which leads to different assumptions about health, health care and ultimately the responsibility of society in acknowledging the place of the family as a care recipient. The papers in this issue take us on the journey to try and understand family experience in a caring capacity from this perspective where the interrelationships within the family, between the family and professional carers, and macro system influences within the healthcare system itself provide the context for illness and process of health care. This full systems approach provides a conceptual platform to examine these excellent papers, all of which relate to family caring across the life span. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)