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January 2009

• For US citizens and US residents: Training Opportunity Institute on Systems Science and Health May 3-8, 2009 Ann Arbor, Michigan. Application Deadline: February 13, 2009 11:59pm (Eastern) Application Information Available: http://www.chronicdisease.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3811
• Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases. Experiences from Europe and Latin America [297p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91946.pdf
  • includes 7. Health systems and systems thinking by Rifat Atun, Nata Menabde
• A Scoping Literature Review of Collaboration between Primary Care and Public Health 38p. at: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/nursing/docs/MartinMisener-Valaitis-Review.pdf
• Caring for people with chronic conditions A health system perspective [290p.] at: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91878.pdf
• Health Affairs -- Table of Contents Alert The Crisis In Chronic Disease: January/February 2009; Vol. 28, No. 1 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol28/issue1/?etoc
• GapCast11 Reducing Child Mortality http://www.gapminder.org/videos/gapcasts/gapcast-11-reducing-child-mortality/
• NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health at http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2008no3/2008no3.pdf
• Stochastic modelling for quantitative description of heterogeneous biological systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2509
• BMJ HEAD TO HEAD Have targets done more harm than good in the English NHS? http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/338/jan16_2/a3130?rss=1
• Great Teachers - Evidence-Based Medicine: A Story of Science, Policy, and Politics http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=14860
• Synthetic biology: The yin and yang of nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457271a
• Reconstructing the Circuits of Disease: From Molecular States to Physiological States http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=14848
• Confessions of a Cultural Anthropologist: The Cause and Cure of High Health Costs http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/01/confessions-of.html
• A Virtual Bookclub on Darwin's Classic http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/01/a-virtual-bookclub-on-darwins.html
• New NRC Report Finds “Health Care IT Chasm,” Seeks New Course Toward Quality Improvement and Cost Savings http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/e-CareManagement/~3/509880389/
• Waiting list behaviour and the consequences for NHS targets http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jors.2008.149
• New series of policy briefs launched at WHO European Ministerial Conference Health Systems, Health and Wealth. The briefs are available in English, French, German and Russian at http://www.euro.who.int/HEN/policybriefs/20080814_2
• OECD Publications Health Working Papers http://www.oecd.org/document/25/0,3343,en_2649_33929_2380441_1_1_1_1,00.html
  • The US Physician Workforce:
  • Migration of Health Workers
  • Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Germany
  • International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada
  • The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries.
• System Zoo (Vensim) Simulation models by Hartmut Bossel http://www.usf.uni-kassel.de/cesr/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=141&func=fileinfo&id=109
• A system analysis of a suboptimal surgical experience http://www.pssjournal.com/content/3/1/1
• wikiSD new pages via Gene Bellinger example http://www.systemdynamics.org/wiki/index.php/System_Dynamics_Methodology
• Richard Feynman’s Physics Videos http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2008/12/richard-feynman-physics-video-lectures.html (from ask ET blog Edward Tufte)
• Pattern Graphs http://thepatternsite.com/index.html (from ask ET blog Edward Tufte)
• Advancing Systems Biology for Medical Applications ESF Science Policy Briefing 35, December 2008 http://www.esf.org/research-areas/medical-sciences/publications.html
• Science Magazine Special Issue on Technology and Education
  • Technology and Testing http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/75?rss=1 Quote p 77 “Dynamic models of ecosystems or molecular structures help scientists visualize and communicate complex interactions. Models of population density permit investigations of economic and social issues. This move from static to dynamic models has changed the nature of inquiry among professionals and the way that academic disciplines can be taught and tested.”
  • See also NAEP Report 2007 Problem solving in technology-rich environments LARGE 5 MB FILE http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/30/ac/35.pdf

December 2008

• Dana Meadows newly published book Thinking in Systems: A Primer http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/thinking_in_systems/
• waters foundation systems thinking in education site, first WebEd modules http://www.watersfoundation.org/webed/
• Physician Autonomy and Informed Decision Making: Finding the Balance for Patient Safety and Quality http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/24/2913
  • ”Currently, it is unclear how well students graduating from US medical schools or residency programs…understand system dynamics or the basic principles of safe design.”
• Integrating mental health into primary care A global perspective WHO and Wonca 224p http://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/Mental%20health%20+%20primary%20care-%20final%20low-res%20140908.pdf
• MIT Engineering Systems Division Working Paper Series 2008 http://esd.mit.edu/WPS/default.htm
  • ESD-WP-2008-21 America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
  • ESD-WP-2008-17 Will Nano-Butlers Work for Micro-Payments? Innovation in Business Services Model may Reduce Cost of Delivering Global Healthcare Services
  • ESD-WP-2008-15 Taming the Business Cycles in Commercial Aviation: Trade-space analysis of strategic alternatives using simulation modeling
  • ESD-WP-2008-14 A Comparison of GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory & Inpatient Healthcare: 1998-2005
  • ESD-WP-2008-13 Planning for a Flu Pandemic: Policies to Empower Individuals and Families
  • ESD-WP-2008-11 GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory Healthcare: A Comparison with other Industry Segments, 1998-2005
  • ESD-WP-2008-10 Revisiting R0, the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
  • ESD-WP-2008-07 A Portfolio Approach for Purchasing Systems: Impact of Switching Point
  • ESD-WP-2008-06 Understanding Complexity: Dynamic Analysis of Combat Vehicle Accidents
• MIT ESD Completed Dissertations http://esd.mit.edu/people/dissertations.htm
  • Qualitative Knowledge Construction for Engineering Systems: Extending the Design Structure Matrix Methodology in Scope and Procedure (.pdf) By Jason Bartolomei
  • Knowledge Integration for Problem Solving in the Development of Complex Aerospace Systems (.pdf) By Marc Haddad
  • Standards as Interdependent Artifacts: the Case of the Internet (.pdf) By Mo-Han Hsieh
  • Innovation in the Life Sciences: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Scientific Knowledge Diffusion, Accumulation and Utilization (.pdf) By Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang
  • Platforms and Flexibility in Large-Scale Engineering Systems (.pdf) By Konstantinos Kalligeros
  • Networking Technology Adoption: System Dynamics Modeling of Fiber-to-the-Home (.pdf) By Andjelka Kelic
  • Command in Air War: Centralized vs. Decentralized Control of Combat Air Power (.pdf) By Michael Kometer
• Nature series on being human http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/beinghuman/
• Personalized health care HHS Report 2008 302p http://www.hhs.gov/myhealthcare/news/presonalized-healthcare-2008.html
• The evolution of biology. A shift towards the engineering of prediction-generating tools and away from traditional research practice EMBO Report http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/embor.2008.212
• Videocast archives of the conference Modeling Social Behavior . This conference was led by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) with co-sponsorship from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR).
  • http://www.videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=14799 Modeling Social Behavior, Day 1, November 6, 2008
  • http://www.videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=14800 Modeling Social Behavior, Day 2, November 7, 2008
• Systems thinking and the use of systemic methodologies in knowledge management http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fsres.931
• Preparing for pandemics http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/456574a
• The epitaph of profession http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/Literature/EpitaphofProfession.htm
• Private Health Insurance in Canada http://www.chepa.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=pdf%2fCHEPA+WP+08-04+Hurley_PrivIns_Canada_Rd2_Oct15_fnl_WPsub.pdf&tabid=130&mid=450
• Good Practices in Health Financing 530p. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTHSD/Resources/376278-1202320704235/GoodPracticesHealthFinancing.pdf

November 2008

• Mental Disorders among Homeless People in Western Countries http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050237
• Managed Care and Private Health Insurance in a Global Context http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/33/6/1107?rss=1
• The challenge of reforming Japan's health system http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/reforming_Japan_health/executive_summary.asp
• Decision Making in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change http://mdm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/6/845?rss=1
• In Chronic Condition: Experiences Of Patients With Complex Health Care Needs, In Eight Countries, 2008 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.28.1.w1v1?rss=1
• Computational modeling for reasoning about the social behavior of humans Kathleen M. Carley http://www.springerlink.com/content/k44jr16031412578/
• Social solidarity is key to meaningful health reform http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/11/social-solidari.html
• Google Flu Trends uses web search to track real flu http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/451073914/google_flu_tren.php and http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07634
• Perspective Roundtable: Redesigning Primary Care http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/20/e24?rss=1&query=current
• Is Private Health Care the Answer to the Health Problems of the World's Poor? http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050233
• Cognitive Systems Research Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 1-90 Special issue: Modeling the Cognitive Antecedents and Consequences of Emotion Edited by Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella and Paolo Petta http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2009-999899998-739136
• A first draft of a course of study designed to use systems theory as an alternative to the “core” curriculum as the organizer of general education is available, free, at http://home.cfl.rr.com/marion/2008/10/investigating-systems-course-of-study.html
• Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems: The Disconnect Between Health Economists and Public Health Practitioners Am J Public Health 2008;98 2173-2180 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/12/2173?etoc
• Mountains and molehills Mismatches between theory and data and models http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=620 and http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCooling/page1.php
• Transforming Science: Cancer Control on caBIG Videocast http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=14755
• The virtues and vices of equilibrium and the future of financial economics http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fcplx.20261
• Consciousness and Anesthesia Science Review http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5903/876?rss=1
• Genetic Mapping in Human Disease http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5903/881?rss=1
• Can health equity become a reality? The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9650 - 8 November 2008 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61663-3/fulltext
• Health Affairs The Price Of Medical Technology: November/December 2008; Vol. 27, No. 6 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol27/issue6/?etoc and http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/11/11/new-health-affairs-issue-examines-the-price-of-medical-technology/
• Health Targets in Europe - Learning from experience World Health Organization 2008, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 177p. http://www.euro.who.int/document/e91867.pdf
• New Evidence Report on Integrating Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Primary Medical Care AHRQ http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/mhsapc/mhsapc.pdf
• COMMENTARY: Glucose Lowering to Control Macrovascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes: Treating the Wrong Surrogate End Point? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/17/2051?rss=1
• Special theme issue: health financing. Bulletin of the World Health Organization - November 2008, Volume 86, Number 11 http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/11/07-049387/en/index.html
• The state of health research worldwide Editorial http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360861627X/fulltext?rss=yes
• Health and health-research priorities: has WHO got it right? http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608616323/fulltext?rss=yes
• From Mexico to Mali: progress in health policy and systems research http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360861658X/abstract?rss=yes
• Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608616591/abstract?rss=yes
• Recognising patterns http://www.hsd.lshtm.ac.uk/publications/hsd_working_papers/recognising_patterns_web_version.pdf
• World Health Report 2008 on Primary Care http://www.who.int/whr/2008/en/index.html
• High and rising health care costs: Demystifying U.S. health care spending 32p. http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/101508.policysynthesis.costdrivers.rpt.pdf
• FAQ on climate models http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=527
• Why Model? Joshua M. Epstein http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/4/12.html

Forthcoming Announcements

• November 27-8, 2008 Sydney SD in Health Workshop http://www.chi.unsw.edu.au/CHIweb.nsf/page/Workshops
• The 27th International Conference of The System Dynamics Society July 26 – 30, 2009 --- Albuquerque, USA For announcements and details about the conference, visit http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/current/index.htm
• ISSS 2009 - Making Liveable, Sustainable Systems Unremarkable 53rd Meeting of The International Society for the Systems Sciences JULY 12-17, 2009 http://isss.org/world/en/brisbane-2009

Past Announcements

• Health Policy Special Interest Group (HPSIG) Athens Sunday meeting Report http://www.systemdynamics.org/newsletters/2008-10oct/oct2008p6.html
• Kimberly Thompson and Radboud Duintjer Tebbens Win Forrester Award for Lancet article on Polio Eradication vs Control Policies http://www.systemdynamics.org/newsletters/2008-10oct/oct2008p2.html
  • See also http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607605327/abstract
  • http://www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu/mainFrame/news/poliopub10.html
  • (This was written following a Science article 12 May 2006 312/5775/852 Is Polio Eradication Realistic? http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/312/5775/852 And news focus artcle Polio Eradication:Is It Time to Give Up? http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/312/5775/832 The case was presented to WHO special stakeholder meeting and resulted in a subsequent science paper Polio: no cheap way out. Science Magazine 20 April 2007 Vol 316 p362-363 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/316/5823/362
  • More detailed publications about the method and results are The Risks, Costs, and Benefits of Possible Future Global Policies for Managing Polioviruses Am J Public Health. 2008;98:1322–1330. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.122192 Risk Analysis, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2008 p1-22 DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01078.x
  • Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses of a Decision Analytic Model for Posteradication Polio Risk Management Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens et al Risk Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2006 p1541-1556 DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00843.x
  • Evaluation of Response Scenarios to Potential Polio Outbreaks Using Mathematical Models Kimberly M. Thompson, Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, and Mark A. Pallansch
• Lupina Young Researchers Award in Health System Dynamics. Awards were given for two papers:
  • Broadening boundary perception in a multi-organizational context: Study of a community mental health program in New York State" by Hyunjung Kim (University at Albany), http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2008/proceed/papers/KIM444.pdf
  • Women with HIV/AIDS in Malawi: The impact of anti-retroviral therapy on economic welfare by Jennifer Headley, Holly Rockweiler, and Aqeela Jogee (Washington University) http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2008/proceed/papers/HEADL449.pdf
• For Other ISDC2008 Athens Conference Papers see http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2008/proceed/index.html e.g Emerging Opportunities for System Dynamics in UK Health and Social care - The Market-Pull for Systemic Thinking Eric Wolstenholme et al http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2008/proceed/papers/WOLST187.pdf
• Asyst Award for System Dynamics in Health work at CDC and NIH http://www.asysti.org/Prize/2008asystprizewinner.aspx
• The proceedings of the past PhD Colloquium in Athens are now available on the New Student Chapter website http://sites.google.com/site/studentchaptersystemdynamics/phd-colloquium/proceedings-2008

October 2008

• Economics needs a scientific revolution Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4551181a
• Health Care Expenditures in 2040 http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/10/29/health-care-expenditures-in-2040/
• Pharmaceutical futures: A fiendish puzzle http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081029/full/4551164a.html?s=news_rss
• Key challenges in agent-based modelling for geo-spatial simulation http://gisagents.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-paper-key-challenges-in-agent-based.html
• Expanding Primary Care: A Call To Action http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/10/27/expanding-primary-care-a-call-to-action/
• Health-system reform in China Lancet Series http://www.thelancet.com/online/focus/china.collection
  • Editorial http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608616013/fulltext?rss=yes
• High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design [293p.] at http://www.longwoods.com/articles/images/QBD_Oct08.pdf
• Science ECONOMICS: Risk Communication of Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance John D. Sterman http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/322/5901/532
  • And http://scripts.mit.edu/~jsterman/On-Line_Publications.html#2008Risk http://scripts.mit.edu/~jsterman/Management_Flight_Simulators_(MFS).html http://scripts.mit.edu/~jsterman/docs/Sterman-2008-PolicyForum081024.pdf
• New Epidemics Journal http://www.epidemics.elsevier.com/topics.htm
• Metabolic syndrome: from epidemiology to systems biology http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v9/n11/abs/nrg2468.html?lang=en
• Future Health Systems Social Science & Medicine - Volume 66, Issue 10, Pages 2067-2184 (May 2008) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536
• Creativity, fulfillment and flow: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on TED.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/429779609/creativity_fulf.php
• Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond on TED.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/433497046/why_do_societie.php
• PERSPECTIVE: Election 2008: Three "Inconvenient Truths" about Health Care Victor Fuchs NEJM http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/17/1749?rss=1&query=current
• The mental wealth of nations Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4551057a
• Myths And Misconceptions About U.S. Health Insurance http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.6.w533v1?rss=1

September 2008

• The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/13/1580?rss=1
• 2008 Visualization Challenge Winners http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5897/1768?rss=1
• On improving dynamic decision-making: implications from multiple-process cognitive theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fsres.906
• Health, population and the human mind: Marvin Minsky on TED.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/400758258/health_populati.php
• Exceptional longevity does not result in excessive levels of disability http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/105/36/13274?rss=1
• A synthesis and a practical approach to complex systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fcplx.20239
• Sampling for Global Epidemic Models and the Topology of an International Airport Network http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/plosone/PLoSONE/~3/384973857/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003154
• What is a systems approach? From Complexity Digest http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1698
• Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences Volume 25 Issue 4 (July 2008)Special Issue: System Dynamics Theory Building http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946258/grouphome/home.html
  • e.g David Lane Formal theory building for the avalanche game: explaining counter-intuitive behaviour of a complex system using geometrical and human behavioural/physiological effects http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fsres.911
• New SD Resources from Ralf Lippold http://www.systemdynamics.org/wiki/index.php/Resources
• Studying societal transition dynamics via focusing on underlying feedback interactions Gönenç Yücel Catherine Miluska Chiong Meza

Comput Math Organ Theory 2008 DOI 10.1007/s10588-008-9032-4 http://www.springerlink.com/content/910g3v82xg176040/

• Sidestepping Superstitious Learning, Ambiguity, and Other Roadblocks: A Feedback Model of Diagnostic Problem Solving Jenny W. Rudolph J.Bradley Morrison The American Journal of Medicine (2008) Vol 121 (5A), S34–S37
• Systems biology of persistent infection: tuberculosis as a case study doi:10.1038/nrmicro1919 Published online 9 June 2008 p520-528 | july 2008 | volume 6 http://www.nature.com/reviews/micro
• Complex interventions or complex systems? Implications for health economic evaluation BMJ 2008;336;1281-1283 http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7656/1281
• Computer modelling of epilepsy doi:10.1038/nrn2416 Published online 2 July 2008 p626-637 | august 2008 | volume 9 http://www.nature.com/reviews/neuro
• Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification Leroy Hood http://www.pnas.orgcgidoi10.1073pnas.0801434105 PNAS April 22, 2008 vol. 105 no. 16 5951–5952
  • Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage http://www.pnas.org cgi doi 10.1073 pnas.0711220105 PNAS April 22, 2008 vol. 105 no. 16 5955–5962 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0711220105/DCSupplemental
• A HYBRID EPIDEMIC MODEL: COMBINING THE ADVANTAGES OF AGENT-BASED AND EQUATION-BASED APPROACHES Georgiy V. Bobashev Joshua M. Epstein D. Michael Goedecke Feng Yu Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference
• Using system dynamics modeling to understand the impact of social change initiatives Gary B. Hirsch Ralph Levine Robin Lin Miller Am J Community Psychol (2007) 39:239–253 DOI 10.1007/s10464-007-9114-3
• The Society for Complexity in Acute Illness (SCAI) http://www.scai-med.org/publications.html
• Learning Healthcare system concepts IOM http://www.iom.edu/CMS/28312/RT-EBM/56903/57305/57381.aspx
• August Supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, entitled the Science of Team Science. It contains a variety of articles that may be of interest http://www.ajpm-online.net/issues/contents?issue_key=S0749-3797(08)X0012-1
  • e.g Interdisciplinarity and Systems Science to Improve Population Health A View from the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Patricia L. Mabry et al Am J Prev Med 2008;35(2S):S211–S224
  • Systems Thinking to Improve the Public’s Health Scott J. Leischow et al Am J Prev Med 2008;35(2S):S196–S203
• Embracing Chaos and Complexity: A Quantum Change for Public Health http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/98/8/1382
• A New Tool for Epidemiology: The Usefulness of Dynamic-Agent Models in Understanding Place Effects on Health Amy H. Auchincloss and Ana V. Diez Roux

American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(1):1-8 http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/168/1/1?etoc

• Understanding individual human mobility patterns http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7196/full/nature06958.html
  • Note that the above article has touched off some discussion regarding the ethics of the approach used in the study (see comments at the bottom of the page)

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080604/full/news.2008.874.html (4 above From Patty Mabry OBSSR)

• The Quest for Quality in the NHS: Refining the NHS Reforms http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/detail.asp?id=0&PRid=389
• Scenario work done by NHS North http://www.northwest.nhs.uk/strategic_scenarios/ (2 above from Paul Holmstrom)
• Human metabolism modeling conference in Washington, http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/HMBW/ (From Ozge Karanfil)
• The journal Global Environmental change has just published a paper reporting on an assessment of the projections of the book 'Limits to Growth'. A comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 years of reality http://ideas.repec.org/p/cse/wpaper/2008-09.html http://www.csiro.au/files/files/plje.pdf (From Derek Burrows)
• Closing the gap in a generation:Health equity through action on the social determinants of health Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health CSDH August 2008 - Geneva, World Health Organization 256p.at: http://www.who.int/entity/social_determinants/final_report/csdh_finalreport_2008.pdf
• From Mexico to Mali: Taking Stock of Achievements in Health Policy and Systems Research 38p. at: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/Alliance%20HPSR_ST_FinalReport.pdf
• DISEASE CONTROL Paper prepared for the Copenhagen Consensus, 2008 69p.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/Working%20Papers/2008/PGDA_WP_35.pdf
• Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences 33p.at http://www.cprn.org/documents/50036_EN.pdf
• Health Reform Revisited: May/June 2008; Vol. 27, No. 3 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol27/issue3/?etoc

April 2008

• Butterflies, tornadoes and climate modelling http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=555
• The use of economic evaluations in NHS decision-making: a review and empirical investigation [210p.] http://www.hta.nhs.uk/fullmono/mon1207.pdf
• Physician Organization in Relation to Quality and Efficiency of Care: A Synthesis of Recent Literature http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=678118&#doc678118
• Health Care Around the World http://healthcare-economist.com/category/international-health-care-systems/health-care-around-the-world-international-health-care-systems/
• Mapmaker for Influenza http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5874/310?rss=1
• Why we (US) dont need more doctors http://www.healthbeatblog.org/2008/04/why-we-dont-nee.html
  • http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/16/1658?rss=1&query=current
• Wikipedia Systems Science Portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Systems_science
• Santa Fe Institute Working Papers http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wplist/2008
  • The virtues and vices of equilibrium and the future of financial economics J. Doyne Farmer and John Geanakoplosy
  • Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
• Physicists model how we form opinions http://www.physorg.com/news127385810.html
• Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce http://books.nap.edu/catalog/12089.html
• Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases seven themes to consider and build upon http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/62/5/391
• The "Frontline" Report on International Health Care, "Sick Around the World," is Worth an Hour of Your Time http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2008/04/frontline-report-on-international.html

Milstein B. Hygeia's constellation navigating health futures in a dynamic and democratic world. Atlanta, GA

Syndemics Prevention Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/monograph/index.htm

System Dynamics (General Section)

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