Skip to Main Content
Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems
book

Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

by Paul K. Davis, Angela O'Mahony, Jonathan Pfautz
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
992 pages
31h 53m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

35 A Complex Systems Approach for Understanding the Effect of Policy and Management Interventions on Health System Performance

Jason Thompson1, Rod McClure2 and Andrea de Silva3

1 Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia

2 Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Rural Health, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia

3 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

Introduction

Traditionally, relationships in medical and health research are understood through the hypothetico‐deductive framework. First, hypotheses regarding observed or expected patterns between sets of people differentiated by group features are proposed. Hypotheses are then tested through comparison of features (e.g. gender, age, intervention, or treatment groups) on differences in outcome variables of interest (e.g. depression, well‐being, recovery, etc.). Over time, gathered evidence is then used to judge whether repeated observed associations among independent outcome variables are causal.

Hugely successful for understanding simple relationships, health researchers have relied heavily on this structure, of which the patient/problem/population–intervention–comparison–outcome (PICO) framework (U.S. National Library of Medicine 2018) is perhaps the most common example. The widespread adoption of PICO and related frameworks ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Modeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises: Explorations of Physical, Human, Economic, and Social Phenomena

Modeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises: Explorations of Physical, Human, Economic, and Social Phenomena

William B. Rouse
Academic Press Library in Signal Processing

Academic Press Library in Signal Processing

Sergios Theodoridis, Rama Chellappa

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119484967Purchase book