HPSIG Snippets 2007-2

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December 2007

• International Society for the System Sciences Tokyo 2007 Conference retrospective http://www.isss.org/world/en/tokyo-2007-retrospective
• Fritjof Capra Complexity and Life Systems Research and Behavioral Science Syst. Res. 24, 475-479 (2007) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:83/journal/71007203/home
  • MP3 from http://www.isss.org/conferences/sonoma2006/retrospective.html
• An Information-Theoretic View of Visual Analytics http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=a5811249789bcdcd4469d03bc67d34f1
• Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in U.S. Health Spending http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=620087&#doc620087
• The State of US Primary Care (the roles of Specialists) http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/12/state-of-primary-care-how-much.html
• COMMENTARY: What Is Different About the Market for Health Care? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/23/2785?rss=1
• EDITORIAL: Measuring the Quality of Primary PCI for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Time for Balance http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/23/2790?rss=1
• Improved Health System Performance through Better Care Coordination OECD 85p. http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2007doc.nsf/ENGDATCORPLOOK/NT00005926/$FILE/JT03237930.PDF
• Reaching for a Healthier Life Facts on Socioeconomic Status and Health in the U.S.[52p.] http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/News/Reaching%20for%20a%20Healthier%20Life.pdf
• The Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual U.S. Agency for International Development in collaboration with Health Systems 20/20, Partners for Health Reformplus, Quality Assurance Project, and Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus. Arlington, VA: Management Sciences for Health http://healthsystems2020.org/files/528_file_Manual_Complete.pdf
• The Molecular Sociology Of The Cell, Review http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7172/full/nature06523.html
• A unified framework of immunological and epidemiological dynamics for the spread of viral infections in a simple network-based population http://www.tbiomed.com/content/4/1/49
• Science [POLICY FORUM] PUBLIC HEALTH: Implementation Science (systems approaches) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5857/1728?rss=1
• Process Improvement in the Rarified Environment of Academic Medicine Paul Levy Video MIT http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/504/
  • http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/

• ARCHeS Health Care Simulator: Expanding Access of Powerful Archimedes Simulator to Decision-Makers http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=23112&pid=1140&c=EMC-CA140
• Recent Developments in GIS and Agent based Toolkits http://gisagents.blogspot.com/2007/12/recent-developments-in-toolkits.html
• Please do the HPSIG Members Survey Now at http://www.informis.co.nz/survey.asp?qnid=310
• Upcoming Australasian SD Chapter Research Colloquium Sydney Feb 18, 2008 http://www.hpsig.com/index.php?title=Research_Colloquium_2008
• ENGAGING WITH CARE A VISION FOR THE HEALTH AND CARE WORKFORCE OF ENGLAND [90p]: http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/ecomm/files/Engaging_with_Care.pdf
• Governing Global Health http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/12/bloom.htm
• Governing Global Health Is the Global Health System Broken http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/12/view.htm
• Bridging the knowledge gaps in vaccine design Nature Biotechnology 25, 1361 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1207-1361
• Systems biology and the host response to viral infection Nature Biotechnology 25, 1383 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1207-1383
• Climate prediction of El Nino malaria epidemics in north-west Tanzania http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/162
• Understanding and Supporting Flexible Execution Gary Klein http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/ex/&toc=comp/mags/ex/2007/06/mex06toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MIS.2007.107
• CANCER: Bridging The Gap Between Basic Research And Health Policy http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/12/04/cancer-bridging-the-gap-between-basic-research-and-health-policy/
• US Health Care Reform: What Do Americans Want? (Or Think They Want?) by Maggie Mahar http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/11/health-care-ref.html

November 2007

• US LEARNING FROM ABROAD: Promise And Pitfalls http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/11/29/learning-from-abroad-promise-and-pitfalls/
• Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering the path to complexity Book http://www.worldscibooks.com/medsci/6175.html
• JAMA COMMENTARY: Asymmetric Paternalism to Improve Health Behaviors http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/20/2415?rss=1
• JAMA COMMENTARY: Dementia Screening in Primary Care: Is It Time? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/20/2409?rss=1
• Shifting patterns: malaria dynamics and rainfall variability in an African highland http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/408408513476g326/?p=d763776b59084e70870e6fd5a4a8236c&pi=2
• A Wiring Diagram of the Brain http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19731/
• The Discipline of Embedded Systems Design http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.364
• Edward Tufte meets Christopher Alexander, at http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1085313.1085322
• Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada’s Health Care Workforce Summary Report: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/2007_migration_summary_e_web.pdf
• Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/files/File/reports/OP017.pdf
• Sustainability of Healthcare Financing in the Western Balkans

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2007/10/09/000158349_20071009154058/Rendered/PDF/wps4374.pdf

• Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults’ Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/6/w717
• The November/December issue of Health Affairs, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol26/issue6/?etoc , features special content to mark the journal’s 25th anniversary.
• Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy [172p.] http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/Alliance_BR.pdf
• System Dynamics Review Volume 23, Issue 2-3, 2007.Special Issue: Exploring the Next Great Frontier: System Dynamics at 50 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/11215/home
  • Exploring the next great frontier: system dynamics at fifty John D. Sterman http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836758/ABSTRACT
  • The power of the bond between cause and effect: Jay Wright Forrester and the field of system dynamics David C. Lane http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836761/ABSTRACT
  • Making system dynamics useful: a personal memoir Edward B. Roberts http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836760/ABSTRACT
  • Application of system dynamics to corporate strategy: an evolution of issues and frameworks Henry Birdseye Weil http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836757/ABSTRACT
  • System dynamics applied to project management: a survey, assessment, and directions for future research James M. Lyneis, David N. Ford http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836767/ABSTRACT
    • Extended bibliography http://ceprofs.tamu.edu/dford/SDPMbibliography070606.pdf
    • MIT Systems and project management course http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Engineering-Systems-Division/ESD-36JFall-2003/CourseHome/index.htm
  • The history and conclusions of The Limits to Growth Donella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836766/ABSTRACT
  • A brief and incomplete history of operational gaming in system dynamics Dennis Meadows http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836759/ABSTRACT
  • System dynamics in the U.K.: a journey from Stirling to Oxford and beyond John Morecroft, Eric Wolstenholme http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836765/ABSTRACT
  • A brief history of system dynamics in continental Europe Peter M. Milling http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836772/ABSTRACT
  • How the System Dynamics Society came to be: a collective memoir David Andersen, John Morecroft, Roberta Spencer, Jay Forrester, Michel Karsky, Bernard Paulré, Jack Pugh, Michael Radzicki, Jørgen Randers, George Richardson, Khalid Saeed, Eric Wolstenholme http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836771/ABSTRACT
  • Nonlinear dynamic phenomena in the beer model Erik Mosekilde, Jakob L. Laugesen http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836770/ABSTRACT
  • Forecasting turning points in shipping freight rates: lessons from 30 years of practical effort Jørgen Randers, Ulrich Göluke http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836769/ABSTRACT
  • Thinking about systems: student and teacher conceptions of natural and social systems L. Booth Sweeney, John D. Sterman http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836764/ABSTRACT
  • Chronic illness in a complex health economy: the perils and promises of downstream and upstream reforms Jack Homer, Gary Hirsch, Bobby Milstein http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836763/ABSTRACT
  • System dynamics - a personal view of the first fifty years Jay W. Forrester http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836762/ABSTRACT
  • System dynamics - the next fifty years Jay W. Forrester http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116836768/ABSTRACT

October 2007

• Together for Health: A Strategic Approach for the EU 2008-2013 http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_overview/Documents/strategy_wp_en.pdf
• Milken Institute. An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease Charting a New Course to Save Lives and Increase Productivity and Economic Growth. http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=38801018&cat=ResRep
• Conditional Cash Transfers for Improving Uptake of Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/298/16/1900
• This year's Leontief Prize, issued by the Global Development and Environment institute at Tufts, honors economists challenging conventional thought on climate change. http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/about_us/leontief.html

• The certainty of uncertainty at RealClimate.org. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=490
• The finalists for the Why Games Matter have been announced! http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competition/healthgames Vote now.
• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies E-Bulletin http://intranet.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/OBS/ListServer/20071018_1
• Biology and Health Inequality http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050267
• Population ecology: Group living and hungry lions http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/449996a and Group formation stabilizes predator–prey dynamics http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06177
• Models, mechanisms and clinical evidence for cancer dormancy http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrc2256
• Nature Essays Science & Politics http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/scipol/index.html
• Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems MIT October 23 4.30pm Paul Levy http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/calendar/2007/102307brunel.html
• The shape of global causes of death http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/48
• The Science of Large-Scale Change in Global Health http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/16/1937?rss=1
• Factors Contributing to High Costs and Inequality in China's Health Care System http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/16/1928?rss=1
• NIH 2007 Symposia Series on Systems Science and Health http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Content/Lectures+and+Seminars/Systems_Symposia_Series/
• Critical Perspectives in Public Health Book Judith Green and Ronald Labonte. Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-40952-0

http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/about/labonte_CriticalPerspectives_cover.shtml

• Internet map visualization http://chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html
• System dynamics mapping of acute patient flows D C Lane & E Husemann JORS http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602498
• Differences In Disease Prevalence As A Source Of The U.S.-European Health Care Spending Gap http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.6.w678v1?rss=1

September 2007

• Science 2007 Visualization Challenge Winners http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/09/nsf_scientific_visualization_awards_announced.html and http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2007/show/
• Going beyond Panaceas Special Feature PNAS http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/39/15176?etoc
• Non-adaptive forces in the evolution of genetic networks http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/09/nonadaptive_forces_in_the_evol.html
• Adaptive Coevolutionary Networks -- A Review http://uk.arXiv.org/abs/0709.1858
• Health Care in Canada 2007 [67p.] http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=download_form_e&cw_sku=07HCICPDF&cw_ctt=1&cw_dform=N
• Guest Editors' Introduction: Social Computing IEEE Intelligent Systems http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=d665f9c085fca210cb782c15270c2319
• John Morecroft Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics Book

http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle/productCd-0470012862.html

• Health System Dynamics Topics covered in John Morecroft's Book:
  • Ch2 Drug related crime p46
  • Ch3 Drug related crime p67
  • Ch5 Workforce management p128 and Policy Structure Diagram p155, 156
  • Ch6 The Dynamics of Growth from Diffusion p163 and Staff Sector of Airline Model
  • Ch7 Decision Filters p209,210,212
  • Ch8 Upstream investment p265 and Commercial vs political interests p280
  • Ch9 Urban Dynamics and Medical Workforce Dynamics and Patient Care p314 and Sector Map p327
  • Ch10 Accelerated Learning p379 and Model Validity p411 p414
• JAMA COMMENTARY: Competition on Outcomes and Physician Leadership Are Not Enough to Reform Health Care http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/12/1445?rss=1
• The Science of Spread: How Innovations in Care Become the Norm http://www.chcf.org/topics/chronicdisease/index.cfm?itemID=133461
• Onions and Bubbles: Models of the Social Determinants of Health http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/07_0126.htm?s_cid=pcd44a83_x
• Social Determinants of Health: What, How, Why, and Now http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/07_0136.htm?s_cid=pcd44a85_x
• Will Avatars Offer Answers? http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jul/07_0060.htm
• Learning from Experience: Health care financing in low and middle-income countries [92p.] http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/hcf/HCF_full_text.pdf
• Book Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2169298,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10
• Book Review: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2169588,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10
• Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems Science Review http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5844/1513?rss=1
• Decision Making MITPressLog http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/mitpress/mitpresslog/~3/155601675/wednesday-blog-.html
• Are Citizens Of The World Satisfied With Their Health? http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/5/w545?rss=1
• Grand Challenges in Global Health: Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues Based on Key Informant Perspectives http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040268
• Health Affairs Caring For The Vulnerable: September/October 2007 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol26/issue5/?etoc
• Using Second Life Virtual World to Teach Medicine http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CasesBlog/~3/154656405/using-second-life-virtual-world-to.html
• Geocomputation 2007: Challenges in Agent-Based Modelling http://gisagents.blogspot.com/2007/09/geocomputation-2007-challenges-in-agent.html
• The Obesity Epidemic--It's Time to Deal With it the Same Way We Did Smoking http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/09/obesity-epidemic-its-time-to-deal-with.html
• Center for Studying Health System Change http://www.hschange.com/ (They are linked to Mathematica Policy Research Inc and supported by Robert Wood Johnson Fund)
• WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (More) NEW PUBLICATIONS at http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/
• WSJ on the Dutch Health Care System http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/09/07/wsj-on-the-dutch-health-care-system/
• From Inverse Problems in Mathematical Physiology to Quantitative Differential Diagnoses http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030204.eor
• Emergence of Recombinant Forms of HIV: Dynamics and Scaling http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030205.eor
• PENNSYLVANIA: Workforce Policy Solutions To Health Care Reform http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/09/05/pennsylvania-workforce-policy-solutions-to-healthcare-reform/
• What are the Major Clinical Pathways to Disability http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/08/30/what-are-the-major-clinical-pathways-to-disability/
• Decade of the Mind Symposium GMU May 2007 Videos http://www.gmu.edu/thinklearn/decade-mind-videos.html
• Mistaking Error David D Woods OSU (old reference 2003, just discovered) http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/woods/error/mistaking_error.pdf

August 2007

• System Dynamics Modeling: Population Flows, Feedback Loops and Health George Richardson and Jack Homer NIH Videocast http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=14005
• The Nursing Shortage--Important Data On Why http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/08/nursing-shortage-important-data-on-why.html
• Four ways to take the policy plunge Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/448867a
• Economics: Age, health and wealth Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/448875a
• Markets and Medical Care: The United States, 1993–2005 Joseph White http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8503feat.html
• Population Health: Challenges for Science and Society David Mechanic http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00498.x?ai=11c&mi=4zzn5&af=R
• Frequent Travelers and Rate of Spread of Epidemics http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/13/9/1288.htm?s_cid=eid1288_e
• Income, aging, health and wellbeing around the world:Evidence from the Gallup World Poll Angus Deaton http://www.princeton.edu/~rpds/downloads/Deaton_Aging_and_wellbeing_around_the_world_All_July_07.pdf
• WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health New Publications http://www.who.int/social_determinants/resources/latest_publications/en/index.html
• US Health Care's Tougher Problem--Solving the Access Problem Isn't Enough If We Don't Deal With Costs http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/08/health-cares-tougher-problem-solving.html
• From Policy to Action: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the Ground Level http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/frompolicytoactionbrief082407.pdf
• Mental health systems research is urgently needed http://www.ijmhs.com/content/1/1/2
• MEDINFO2007_eHealth_Simulation_Tutorial
• Musings about Models (Climate) http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/climate-modelling/
• What Should A Country Spend On Health Care? http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/962
• Forecasting the Global Burden of Alzheimer's Disease PDF [25p.] http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&context=jhubiostat
• The Brain Drain of Health Professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa to Canada PDF [92p.] http://www.queensu.ca/samp/sampresources/samppublications/mad/MAD_2.pdf
• Crossing Sectors - Experiences in Intersectoral Action, Public Policy and Health PDF [54p.] http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2007/cro-sec/pdf/cro-sec_e.pdf
• Social science goes virtual Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/448647a
• Cardiothoracic surgery at a crossroads: The impact of disruptive technologic change http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/2/1/35
• COMMENTARY: Toward Evidence-Based Policy Making and Standardized Assessment of Health Policy Reform JAMA http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/6/676?rss=1

July 2007

• Obesity May Spread Across a Social Network of Family and Friends http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/obesity-may-spread-across-social.html
• Dynastic cycle: a generic structure describing resource allocation in political economies, markets and firms http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602456
• A Comprehensive Cure: Universal Health Care Vouchers PDF [30p.] http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/200707emanuel_fuchs.pdf
• Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up: Joshua Epstein and Michael Macy http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13931
  • Controlling Pandemic Flu reference (via Epstein) http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000401
  • Neighborhood choice and neighborhood change reference (via Macy) Bruch and Mare American Journal of Sociology http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v112n3/090192/brief/090192.abstract.html
• What is systems biology? http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/07/what_is_systems_biology_3.html

June 2007

• 'Harry and Louise,' the Sequel? The Universal Health Care Debate Is Back: Knowledge@Wharton http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1761
• Real and artificial immune systems: computing the state of the body Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 569 (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nri2102
• Influenza Pandemic Vaccines: Spread Them Thin? http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040228
• Globalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background (part 1 of 3) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/3/1/5
• Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/3/1/6
• Globalization and social determinants of health: Promoting health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/3/1/7
• "Sicko"--Hate it All You Like But Don't Ignore It! The Best Response is to Satisfy the Customer! http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/06/sicko-hate-it-all-you-like-but-dont.html
• Reflections On Science, Judgment, And Value In Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Conversation With David Eddy (Health Affairs Web Exclusive) http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.4.w500v1?rss=1
• Charting Plausible Futures for Diabetes Prevalence in the United States: A Role for System Dynamics Simulation Modeling http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jul/06_0070.htm?s_cid=pcd43a52_x
• NCI Tobacco Control Monograph 18: Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/18/monograph18.html
• Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health Conference University of Michigan May 30-31
  • Videocast Day 1 http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13867
  • Videocast Day 2 http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13869
• SPRING 2007 SYMPOSIA SERIES ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND HEALTH
  • Network Analysis: Using Connections and Structures to Understand and Change Health Behaviors Katherine Faust, Ph.D., Thomas Valente, Ph.D.TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2007
  • Videocast http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13878
  • Mark Your Calendars for upcoming symposia in this series:
  • Agent Based Modeling: Population Health From the Bottom Up.Joshua M. Epstien, Ph.D. (The Brookings Institution) and Michael Macy, Ph.D. (Cornell University). Friday, July 13, 2007 10 :00 A M - 12 :00 p.m. Natcher Center, Balcony , 45 Center Drive,Bethesda, MD 20892.
  • System Dynamics Modeling for Population Health. Jack Homer,Ph.D. (Homer Consulting) and George Richardson, Ph.D. (University at Albany - State University of New York). Thursday, August 30, 2007, 1:00p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Natcher Center, Main Auditorium, 45 Center Drive,Bethesda, MD 20892
  • In case you missed the first symposium in the series: Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health John Sterman, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Kenneth McLeroy, Ph.D. (Texas A&MUniversity). March 22, 2007. The videocast is archived at: http://videocast.nih.gov see "Past Events" -"Special".Podcast at: http://videocast.nih.gov/podcasting
• Large-Scale Spatial-Transmission Models of Infectious Disease http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5829/1298?rss=1
• There are many areas of connection between human health and our environment. A recent report from CIFOR (the Center for International Forestry Research) discusses the links between tropical forests and human health. (Note: The senior author, Dr. Colfer, will be attending the Boston System Dynamics Society meeting).

Colfer, C.J.P.; Sheil, D.; Kishi, M. 2006. Forests and human health: assessing the evidence. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. CIFOR Occasional Paper 45. 111p. ISBN: 979-24-4648-6. Can be downloaded (2.7MB) at:

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/OccPapers/OP-45.pdf

An abbreviated version is in:

Colfer, C.J.P.; Sheil, D.; Kaimowitz, D.; Kishi, M. 2006. Forests and human health in the tropics: some important connections.Unasylva 57(224): 3-10 online [URL] http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0789e/a0789e00.htm

Are there areas for cooperation between the Health SIG and our Environment SIG?

(posted by Richard Dudley Chair - Environment Special Interest Group, System Dynamics Society)

• • Continue Discussion at Health and Environment