We invite you to think about the outer circle of Fig. 4.1 and take seriously our opening statement that Neither clinical reasoning nor professional practice, as a whole, occurs in a vacuum. What are...

We invite you to think about the outer circle of Fig. 4.1 and take seriously our opening statement that Neither clinical reasoning nor professional practice, as a whole, occurs in a vacuum. What are the world's biggest health problems and recent policies of the World Health Organization that national healthcare systems and healthcare professions are engaging with? Can you list a few of the global agendas? We often lose the connection between the global, national and local picture, and it is seductive to reduce health models to the biomedical level. Starting to think about the big picture first influences practice models and clinical reasoning processes at the micro level. What connections exist between how these global influences, society expectations, advances in technology and research knowledge influence your central interaction with patients and colleagues?

Fig. 4.1