Collaborative Research Agenda
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This was started by collaboration for
- HPSIG US Health Reform Session at the Boston ISDC2005 Conference July 17,2005
and plans for a Similar Session
- HPSIG Health Reform Session at the Nijmegen ISDC2006 Conference July 23-27,2006
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Sustainable Health Systems
Over the past 50 years of System Dynamics, Environmental Sustainability has been a major focus. Limits to Growth (and its updates) is the mostly widely read (and controversial) book about a simulation model. On the 50th Anniversary Year of System Dynamics, 2007, the Health Policy Special Interest Group of the International System Dynamics Society is seeking expressions of interest on developing a Conference Theme for ISDC2007 in Cambridge MA and an ongoing collaborative research agenda.
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What do we mean by Sustainable Health?
What is it that we propose to sustain? The resources that contribute to health, health itself, both, something separate. What does a system worth paying for look like? What are the ends and what are the means? On which do we focus? This might include reviewing the Sustainability Literature and explicitly Mapping its Concepts to Health System Sustainability, perhaps at multiple levels. ===What does Sustainable Health mean for US Health Reform=== and at what levels of "systems of systems"?
- See The Health Care Crisis and What to do about it Paul Krugman New York Review of Books (accessed Mar 10.2006)
What does Sustainable Health mean for Developing Countries and the Poor?
- See Paul Farmer and his work at Partners in Health
What does Sustainable Health mean for Global Health Priorities?
- See Health Affairs Global Health Priorities March/April 2006
- See Leslaw Michnowski's
- WORLDWIDE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AS A PRECONDITION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GOALS Powerpoint Presentation
- HOW TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY? pdf
- HOW TO AVOID THE GLOBAL CATASTROPHE? The Information Basis for Sustainable Development Policy and Economy pdf
- Other see: http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm
Other ideas
- A generic national health system model that be configured to particular countries, which may be useful in developing and testing policies to strengthen health systems, particularly in developing countries.
- (insert more ideas here or as sub-points under the above sections)
Integrating health and wellbeing
Also see Health System Archetypes
Health System Design as a Discipline
This suggestion has been inspired by Jay Forrester's words from the SDS June newsletter, at http://www.systemdynamics.org/newsletters/2006June.htm
From the Founding President, Jay W. Forrester
Now, approaching the 50th year since initial work that led to system dynamics, we can look back on a half century of accomplishment and from that perspective consider the next 50 years. In five decades, system dynamics has made excellent progress and is moving at a rate comparable to the early histories of other major professions. However, this progress represents only the first tentative steps toward a mature profession of social system design.
Some have expressed disappointment at what appears to be the slow progress in evolution of system dynamics. On the other hand, the field is moving at least as fast as have other professions. It is now 150 years since the founding of MIT; and engineering education is still unfolding. Some 125 years ago the Johns Hopkins medical school was founded; and medicine is still feeling its way. The Harvard Business School started about 100 years ago, and management education departments are still more like trade schools than true professional schools. It is time to start thinking about the next 50 or 100 years in the development of system dynamics.
The other professions, such as engineering and medicine, depend on educational programs as much as eight years in duration for advanced practice. In system dynamics, all education is still at the introductory level, whether in K-12 schools, undergraduate programs, or graduate schools. Nowhere is there a system dynamics education that builds cumulatively over even two years, to say nothing of eight years. Yet, it is clear that such depth is possible and needed, and will evolve. Until an extended education is available, the practitioners in business and government will lack the basis for appropriate system design. We also have an opportunity to provide a dynamic foundation under many other fields including medicine, political science, economics, and international relations.
Ideas for deeper insights and more powerful and extended educational programs exist close to the surface and are available for uncovering and development. Why do we not see more movement? Perhaps it is because the elementary understanding of systems developed in the last 50 years is so useful that people assume that is all there is to accomplish. Such is far from the goal. We do not yet see emerging a stream of powerful, insightful, provocative, and publicly influential books on dynamics of subjects like inflation, social welfare, balance of trade, immigration, preemptive military intervention, epidemics, deficits, aid to developing countries, population growth, pollution, drug abuse, and medical costs.
After 50 years, the promise and vision for widespread understanding of systems is taking shape. The next 50 years should be devoted to bringing that vision to reality.
Health Simulation Multimethod Components and Techniques
e.g. Combining System dynamics, Discrete event and Agent based Simulation in Health
Health Sim Model Library
SELF EXPERIENCE NETWORK
Diagnostic Counseling & Self-integration (DC&Si) stimulates awareness in the present moment of the totality of experience. This creates a self-organizing impulse that promotes the quality of life. It follows a "learner-centered learning" paradigm to sustainable health. Also see: http://selfxp.net/ez/index.php/users/research
(Insert further R&D Ideas for broader, ongoing, international, online participation among HPSIG members... about topics, funding, partnerships and the like here)
