Global Safety and Healthcare: The HIV/AIDS Problem

In the Chaps. 2 – 7 the Theory of the Methodology of Societal Complexity and parts of the Compram methodology are described. In the now following Chaps. 8 – 14 examples are given on how the Compram methodology can be applied on different complex societal problems. All the examples are experiments of thought and mainly refer to global safety. In each chapter special aspects of the Compram methodology are described and explained that are not addressed in the former theoretical chapters. The Chaps. 8 – 14 are based on former published articles of the author in the period of 1992–2014. Often parts of the articles are integrally copied; however, sometimes the text of these articles is adapted to fit into the argumentation of the chapters and the integration of recent knowledge. It might happen that some aspects of the Compram methodology have been already described in previous chapters. However, due to the continuation of the argumentation of the chapters we leave these parts included. The examples are selected on the relevance of the subject, the extended description of the Compram methodology, and in order to answer the fourth expectation, expectation d: although complex societal problems differ a lot from each other the same kind of methodology can be applied to handle these kinds of problems. The research question related to this expectation is research question d1: can one general methodology for handling complex societal problems support the problem handling process of different complex societal problems (expectation d)? In Chap. 8 we make a start with answering the research question d1. In the Chaps. 9 , 10 , 11 , and 12 the research question d1 will be further addressed. The special aspects of the Compram methodology described in Chap. 8 are the problem handling phases 1.1–1.6 of step one of the Compram methodology: the sessions with the experts. These sessions are described as a theoretical example of the use of the Compram methodology on a real-life problem in the field of global safety and healthcare applied on the HIV/Aids problem.