4P and Cognitive Policy Making in Health: A Sociocybernetic Approach

The Covid19 pandemic has shown that current national health systems have been overwhelmed by a generalized crisis that has not yet been resolved. Two of the most salient facts have been: (i) the inappropriate response to an infrequent situation, but with dramatic effects; and (ii) the need to establish public health policies capable of addressing generalized crisis situations quickly and effectively.

Health at all costs seems to have become authoritarian in different parts of the world. It is necessary to design a new health policy that takes advantage of and integrates individual talent and intelligence into the collective structures of the health systems. It is necessary to integrate the local and the global in the search for solutions to crisis situations. This requires the development of decisional tools (analytical and informatics) that, in complex situations, allow co-creation and co-decision between individual actors and institutions.

This session proposes to explore and discuss the cognitive orientation in the processes of citizen participation applied to public decision-making for the better management of contemporary societies. To this end, 4P framework (Product/Process/Person/Planet) is proposed. In short, it seeks to incorporate the local context in the resolution of global problems such as pandemics.

The session will be an 'open space' to present papers with strong empirical foundations and theoretical and speculative papers, both are welcome. It proposes to intensify the exchange between Sociocybernetics thinking and practical problems of the complex field of health and public policies. The challenge is to anticipate and steer new scenarios.