HSDLib-SD

HSD Library - System Dynamics (General Section)

Introduction to Health System Dynamics

• NIH 2007 Symposia Series on Systems Science and Health http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Content/Lectures+and+Seminars/Systems_Symposia_Series/
  • Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health Presented by: Patty Mabry, Ph.D., Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., John Sterman, Ph.D. and Ken McLeroy, Ph.D. March 2007
    • Videocast/Podcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13712
  • System Dynamics Modeling: Population Flows, Feedback Loops and Health George Richardson and Jack Homer
    • NIH Videocast http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=14005

• John D Sterman. Learning from Evidence in a Complex World Am J Public Health (2006) 96:(3);p 505-514

• Lawrence W Green. Public Health asks of Systems Science: To Advance Our Evidence-Based Practice, Can You Help Us Get More Practice-Based Evidence? Am J Public Health (2006) 96:(3);p 406-409
• Jack Homer and Gary Hirsch. System Dynamics Modeling for Public Health: Background and Opportunities Am J Public Health (2006) 96:(3);p 452-458
• Other Papers from the March 2006 American Journal of Public Health special issue on systems approaches to public health are available at http://www.ajph.org/content/vol96/issue3/ (URL accessed Feb 21.2006)

• Jack Homer's and Bobby Milstein's Public Health intro to SD paper revised May 5 2006

• Eric Wolstenholme's The Potential of System Dynamics, The Leading Edge, October 2005, Issue 10, The NHS Confederation

• Main Wikipedia overview of Systems

• More introductory and overview papers

Literature

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Policy considerations and proposals

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Generic structures and behaviors (archetypes)

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Economics and Funding

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Useful Links

• Explaining_Validation_Discussion_from_the_SD_List

• Theory Prediction Projection

• Papers from the American Journal of Public Health special issue on systems approaches to public health are now available online at http://www.ajph.org/content/vol96/issue3/ (URL accessed Feb 21.2006)

• Simulation
  • http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/Evolution_of_Inequality_Overview Santa Fe Events Wiki Evolution of Inequality Workshop
  • The unofficial Paul Krugman archive
  • Jake Chapman's book - "Systems Failure; why governments must learn to think differently"
  • Making Policies Work: Systems Thinking in Government and Management UK Open University Course
  • Structure and Dynamics eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences
  • Peter Turchin’s Historical Dynamics (author of War and Peace and War)
  • David Eddy’s Archimedes Model for simulating Clinical Trials
  • MITRE Introduction to Cognitive Engineering
  • Scott Moss’ Social Policy Simulation UK
  • Nigel Gilbert’s Social Simulation in Health UK
  • Donna Meadows’ The Global Citizen
  • Health Care Logistics Maastricht
  • RealClimate.Org Climate Change for Climate Scientists Website
  • Charles Sanders Peirce His Life, Writings and Inquirers
  • Gary Klein's Sources of Power book about Human Cognition in the Real World
  • Case Resource for Cognitive Task Analysis Aptima
  • Zoominfo Find people
  • Information on Zipf's Law and Zipf's Power Law Website

• Health_Systems_Simulation_Weblinks_December_2005

Simulation Methods

SD and Health Sims in the News

• 2020 Future of Computing Nature Webfocus Mar 23.2006
• Supercomputer builds a Virus Nature Mar 15.2006
• The Scientist - Papers to Watch via Bill Braun March 14.2006 from Systems Biology
• The Health Care Crisis and What to do about it Paul Krugman New York Review of Books (accessed Mar 10.2006)
• Persistent Surveillance in the Military (accessed Mar 8. 2006)
• Flu Wiki from Wired (accessed Feb 26.2006)
• 'Faster emergence' for diseases BBC from AAAS Meeting St Louis (accessed Feb 21.2006)
• Malcolm Gladwell's HomelessnessNew Yorker article (accessed Feb 19.2006)
• America's health-care crisis - Desperate measures (Accessed Jan 30.2006)]
• In Pixels and In Health ScienceNews (accessed Jan 27.2006)
• http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/web_game_provides_breakthrough_in_predicting_spread_of_epidemics_9874 (accessed Jan 26.2006)
• The Battle to Stop Bird Flu Wired Jan 2006 (accessed Dec 31.2005)
• HMS MedicareSim - Using SD for forecasting demand for prescription drugs. (URL accessed Jan 10.2006)

System Archetypes

• Archetypes, General
• Archetypes, Generic (Wolstenholme)
• Archetypes, Health System
• Archetypes, Supply Chains esp Service Industry
• Diffusion of Innovation

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