Modeling and Simulation for Social Epidemiology and Public Health

With a focus on practical applications and examples, this book
contains four main sections: Section I defines the social
determinants of health at a place/population level and discusses
their significance in light of current methodological limitations
in identifying their impacts; Section II focuses on conceptual and
empirical applications of ABM to analyze the social determinants of
health; Section III focuses on conceptual and empirical
applications of MSM to simulate, and thus, increase our
understanding of the impacts of the social determinants of health;
and Section IV addresses future directions for empirical research
using ABM and MSM, including convergence of aspects of both ABM and
MSM into the same analyses, and also casts light on the potential
policy implications of findings of these more complex and
integrative models. Topical coverage includes: the social
determinants of health; current concepts and methods for ABM of the
social determinants of health; empirical evidence using ABM in the
social sciences; empirical evidence using ABM in social
epidemiology and public health; MSM of the social determinants of
health; empirical evidence using MSM in the social sciences;
empirical evidence using MSM in social epidemiology and public
health; future directions and conclusions.