Systems Science and Population Health

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea, City of Detroit) El-Sayed, Abdulrahman M. (Executive Director and Health Officer, Executive Director and Health Officer, Detroit Health Department, Boston University) Galea, Sandro (Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, School of Public Health, Abdulrahman M El-Sayed

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Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between. Our typical approach to studying population health, however, remains oriented around a reductionist approach to conceptualizing, empirically analyzing, and intervening to improve population health. The trouble is that interventions founded on simplifying a complex world often do not work, sometimes yielding failure or, even worse, harm. The difficult truth is that "silver bullet" health science often fails, and understanding these failures can help us improve our approach to health science, and, ultimately, population health.SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND POPULATION HEALTH employs principles from across a range of sciences to refine the way we understand population health. By augmenting traditional analytic approaches with new tools like machine learning, microsimulation, and social network analysis, population health can be studied as a dynamic and complex system. This allows us to understand population health as a complex whole, offering new insights and perspectives that stand to improve the health of the public. This text offers the first educational and practical guide to this forward-thinking approach.Comprising 17 chapters from the vanguard of population health, epidemiology, computer science, and medicine, this book offers a three-part introduction to the subject:DT An intellectual and conceptual history of systems science as it intersects with population healthDT Concise, introductory overviews of important and emerging methodological tools in systems science, including systems dynamics, agent-based modeling, microsimulation, social network analysis, and machine-learning-all with relevant examples drawn from population health literatureDT An exploration of future implications for systems science and its applications to our understanding of population health issuesFor researchers, students, and practitioners, SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND POPULATION HEALTH redefines many of the foundational elements of how we understand population health. It should not be missed.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-06
Mått155 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190492397

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Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a public health physician and epidemiologist. He serves the City of Detroit as the Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer. Under his leadership, the Detroit Health Department has emerged as a state and national leader in promoting healthy air quality, lead elimination, and public health innovation. Dr. El-Sayed's research explores urban health policy, the social determinants of health, and health inequalities. Previously, he was a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University.Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, is a physician and an epidemiologist interested in the social production of health of urban populations. His work explores innovative cells-to-society approaches to population health questions. He is interested in advancing a consequentialist approach to population health scholarship. He currently serves as Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.Together they have been engaged in systems science scholarship and education for more than 15 years.

1.Introduction Abdulrahman M. El-SayedSECTION 1: Simplicity, complexity and population health2. Reductionism at the dawn of population healthKristin Heitman3. Wrong answers: when simple interpretations create complex problemsDavid S. Fink, Katherine M. Keyes4. Complexity: the evolution towards 21st century scienceAnton Palma, David W. Lounsbury5. Systems thinking in population health research and policyStephen MooneySECTION 2: Methods in systems population health6. Generation of systems maps: mapping complex systems of population healthHelen de Pinho7. Systems dynamics modelsEric Lofgren8. Agent-based modelingBrandon Marshall9. MicrosimulationSanjay Basu10. Social network analysis: the ubiquity of social networks and their importance for population healthDouglas A. Luke, Amar Dhand, Bobbi J. CarothersSECTION 3: Systems science towards a consequential population health11. Machine learningJames H. Faghmous12. Systems science and the social determinants of population healthDavid S. Fink, Katherine M. Keyes, Magdalena Cerdá13. Systems approaches to understanding how the environment influences population health and population health interventionsMelissa Tracy14. Systems of behavior and population healthMark Orr, Kathryn Ziemer, Daniel Chen15. Systems under your skinKarina Standahl Olsen, Hege Bøvelstad, Eiliv Lund16. Frontiers in health modelingNathaniel Osgood17. Systems science and population healthAbdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea