Complex Systems and Population Health

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