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Complex Systems and Population Health Yorghos Apostolopoulos (Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Texas A&M University)

Complex Systems and Population Health By Yorghos Apostolopoulos (Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Texas A&M University)

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Complex Systems and Computation in Public Health Sciences is the first comprehensive book in population health science that meaningfully integrates complex systems theory, methodology, modeling, computational simulation, and real-world applications while incorporating current population health perspectives.

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Complex Systems and Population Health Summary

Complex Systems and Population Health by Yorghos Apostolopoulos (Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Texas A&M University)

Currently, population health science is an integral part of global academic curricula. For over a century, the principles of the reductionist paradigm have guided population health curricula, training, research, and action. Researchers continue to draw upon these principles when theorizing, conceptualizing, designing studies, analyzing, and devising interventions to tackle complex population health problems. However, unresolved impasses in addressing pressing population health challenges have catalyzed calls for the integration of complex-systems-science-grounded approaches into population health science. Mounting evidence denotes that a complex systems paradigm can bring about dramatic, multipronged changes for education and training, and lead to innovative research, interventions, and policies. Despite the large and untapped promise of complex systems, the haphazard knowledge base from which academics, researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners can draw has slowed their integration into the population health sciences. This volume fulfils this growing need by providing the knowledge base necessary to introduce a holistic complex systems paradigm in population health science. As such, it is the first comprehensive book in population health science that meaningfully integrates complex systems theory, methodology, modeling, computational simulation, and real-world applications, while incorporating current population health theoretical, methodological and analytical perspectives. It is intended as a programmatic primer across a broad spectrum of population health stakeholders: from university professors and graduate students, to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

Complex Systems and Population Health Reviews

The book is skillfully organized by the authors in way that moves the reader from simple to more complex and general to more specific considerations of the complex systems framework. The reader is afforded clear, concrete opportunities to explore population health science from the multifaceted system level lens versus a single cause perspective. * Susan M Thul, DNP, APRN, CNM (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Doody's Reviews *

About Yorghos Apostolopoulos (Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Texas A&M University)

Yorghos Apostolopoulos is Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group at Texas A&M University. Kristen Hassmiller Lich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michael Kenneth Lemke is Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Houston-Downtown in Houston, Texas, and Associate Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE IN A COMPLEX WORLD Prologue Yorghos Apostolopoulos Chapter 1 Bridging the divide: Where complex systems science meets population health science Yorghos Apostolopoulos PART II: COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND THEORY IN POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE Introductory Material: Preview and Objectives Chapter 2 Complex systems in a nutshell: Foundational concepts for population health Megan S. Patterson, Michael K. Lemke, and Jordan Nelon Chapter 3 Population health as a complex adaptive system of systems Scott E. Page and Jon Zelner Chapter 4 Complex network dynamics in population health James Moody and Dana K. Pasquale Chapter 5 Phase transitions and resilience in physical and psychological health Marcel G.M. Olde Rikkert, Noemi Schuurman, and Rene J.F. Melis Chapter 6 How complex systems science can revolutionize population health theory Patricia Goodson Take-Home Messages Resources for Further Reading PART III: COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND METHODOLOGY IN POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE Introductory Material: Preview and Objectives Chapter 7 Designing population health research grounded in complex systems science Leah Frerichs and Natalie Smith Chapter 8 Model thinking and formal modeling to improve our mental models in population health research and action Michael K. Lemke Chapter 9 Engaging stakeholders in mapping and modeling complex system structure to inform population health research and action Kristen Hassmiller Lich and Jill Kuhlberg Chapter 10 Is it time to rethink "normal" in population health research? Neal Dawson and Pierpaolo Andriani Take-Home Messages Resources for Further Reading PART IV: COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE Introductory Material: Preview and Objectives Chapter 11 Mathematical modeling in population health research Karen Hicklin and Kristen Hassmiller Lich Chapter 12 Computational simulation modeling in population health research and policy Nathaniel Osgood Chapter 13 System dynamics modeling to rethink health system reform Jack Homer, Bobby Milstein, and Gary B. Hirsch Chapter 14 Agent-based modeling to delineate opioid and other drug use epidemics Georgiy Bobashev, Lee D. Hoffer, and Francois R. Lamy Chapter 15 Hybrid simulation modeling in population health Sally C. Brailsford, Dave C. Evenden, and Joe Viana Chapter 16 Validation of microsimulation models used for population health policy Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Roman Gulati, and Carolyn M. Rutter Chapter 17 Computational simulation modeling: A tale of five models for health policy analysis Michael C. Wolfson Chapter 18 Physical sciences for non-physical problems: Understanding and controlling human disease Lazaros Gallos Take-Home Messages Resources for Further Reading PART V: TOWARD A NEW POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE Introductory Material: Preview and Objectives Chapter 19 Making the global complexity turn in population health Brian Castellani Chapter 20 Harnessing complex systems: An emerging paradigm for a new population health science Yorghos Apostolopoulos Take-Home Messages Resources for Further Reading GLOSSARY OF TERMS INDEX

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CIN0190880740G
9780190880743
0190880740
Complex Systems and Population Health by Yorghos Apostolopoulos (Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group, Texas A&M University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2020-08-13
336
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