Tipping points : modelling social problems and health /

This book focuses on the modelling of contemporary health and social problems, especially those considered a major burden to communities, governments and taxpayers, such as smoking, alcoholism, drug use, and heart disease. Based on a series of papers presented at a recent conference hosted by the Le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bissell, John J. (Editor ), Caiado, Camila C. S. (Editor ), Curtis, Sarah, 1954- (Editor ), Goldstein, Michael, 1949- (Editor ), Straughan, B. (Brian) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
Temas:
Social medicine > Mathematical models.
Health behavior > Mathematical models.
Social Medicine > methods
Habitudes sanitaires > Modèles mathématiques.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The smoking epidemic
  • Generalised compartmental modelling of health epidemics
  • Stochastic modelling for compartmental systems applied to social problems
  • Women and smoking in the north east of England
  • Mathematical modelling in healthcare
  • Tipping points in cardiac surgical performance
  • Heart online uncertainty and stability estimation
  • Stents, blood flow, and pregnancy
  • Tipping points in social dynamics
  • From five key questions to a system sociology theory
  • Complexity in spatial dynamics
  • Conformity bias and catastrophic social change
  • The resilience of tipping points
  • Psychological perspectives on risk and resilience
  • Tipping points and uncertainty in health & health care systems.

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