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

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 cov...