System Dynamics Models for Public Health and Health Care Policy

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: amputee mobility; archetypes; biomarker; cancer; capacity; cardiovascular diseases; child welfare; chronic disease; clinical practice guidelines; complex systems; congestion; COVID-19; decision making; delayed hospital discharges; dissemination; early detection of cancer; equity; evidence-based guidelines; health; health care system; health policy; hospital; integrated care; juvenile justice; long-term conditions; major lower-limb amputations; mass screening; Mathematics and Science; mental health; Monte Carlo randomization; natural history of disease; opioid epidemic; optimization; participatory modelling; policy decision thresholds; population health and well-being; prevention; prostate cancer; prosthesis usage; prosthetics; PSA; public health; public health practice; public policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resilience; resource allocation; sensitivity testing; simulation model; simulation modeling; social care; stewardship; strategy; system dynamics; tourism recovery; uncertainty analysis; unintended consequences; youth homelessness
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-7840-8
• ISBN: 9783036578408; 3036578412; 3036578404; 9783036578415

System dynamics is a simulation modeling approach to strategic and policy analysis that has been applied to many health care and public health issues since the 1960s and has become increasingly prevalent since the 2000s. The ten articles in this reprint appeared in a Special Issue of Systems and cover a broad cross-section of relevant methodological topics as well as applications to specific health problems.One methodological article describes the use of cascaded system archetypes, with an application to reducing hospital congestion. Another discusses Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, with an application to the US opioid crisis. Three of the articles describe models of community response to severe shocks, including recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Two other articles address strategies for dealing with myriad chronic diseases and risk factors in a population. Other papers include in-depth analyses of prostate cancer screening, digital prosthetic services for lower-limb amputees, and the complex behavioral health challenge of youth homelessness.This reprint provides an excellent snapshot of the current state of practice in system dynamics as it is applied to public health, health care delivery, and health policy. It offers practical policy guidance and will be of interest to both experienced practitioners and those new to the field.