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Martin, There was a paper presented at the 2002 International System Dynamics Conference in Palermo on the evolution of language over a much longer time-scale and broader geographical area. It was presented by Harald Sverdrup of Lund University and was titled ""System Dynamics Applied to R...

Dear Martin, A paper I wrote on education reform in the US deals with several aspects of quality of education. Its entitled "Can Education Reform Get in the Way of Reforming Education?: A Simulator for Exploring Reform Strategies" and can be found on the Creative Learning Exchanges web sit...

Hi Jodi-

The learning environment youre looking for is called Friday Night at the ER
and is available from Breakthrough Learning. Their web site is at
http://www.blearning.com/friday.html

Gary Hirsch
From: GBHirsch@aol.com

Dear Mark- During the mid-to-late 1990s several colleagues and I developed a set of health care Microworlds (simulated learning environments) based on System Dynamics models. One module dealt with improving community health status and included services that might only be expected to have an impact o...

Edward- Ive been working on a series of models with others on the adoption of new curricula and technology in schools. A paper on an earlier effort entitled "Innovation in Schools: A Model to Help Structure the Discussion and Guide the Search for Strategies" is available from the Creative ...

Hi Kim- I think you are entirely correct that Microworlds focused on the problems of a firm or industry that teach SD as a byproduct are an excellent way of getting peoples attention and enticing them into learning more about SD. Most people are not initially interested in learning a new field such ...

Im writing to add a few thoughts to P. M. Bartons comments about the similarities between SD and Markov Process models for reflecting the progression of chronic illlnesses in populations. I agree with him that the two are similar when used to model naturally-occurring disease processes and also incr...

Dear Gianliborio, A good starting point for you would be a special issue on health care of the System Dynamics Review (Volume 15, Number 3, Fall, 1999) which has several articles on management of patient care within hospitals and local health care systems. References cited in these articles would th...

The references shown below are for work done some time ago, but are relevant to your query in that defensive medicine is an overreaction to medical risk and an unintended consequence of dealing with it. Hopefully, the documents are still available from MIT. Jim Potchen, one of the authors, is on the...

X-UIDL: 10529-938505322 Status: O X-Status: There have been a number of models developed on community health problems and health care systems. The System Dynamics bibliography should provide references on many of these. Some of the most recent work on community health care systems and health status ...

The wealthy enclave dynamics that you describe in the California community seem to be present in the Boston area as a whole, not just the wealthier suburbs. The additional feedback loops that seem to be contributing to the creation of a wealthy enclave in Boston are the positive loops through the gr...

A group of us working at Innovation Associates from 1995 to 1997 developed a Health Care Microworld, a set of simulators that allow providers and community members to examine different strategies for dealing with complex problems and changes occurring in health care. The Microworld is also designed ...

In response to Kevin Agatsteins query about health care redesign models, there have been several SD-based Learning Environments (Microworlds) dealing with change in health care systems. One of these was developed by Innovation Associates with The Healthcare Forum. It is described in "Mastering ...

A model of heroin addiction in an urban community developed by Ed Roberts, Gil Levin, and me in the early 1970s in New York dealt with the significant criminal justice components of the problem (arresting and jailing of addict criminals, police action to reduce hard and soft drug supplies) as well a...

I just wanted to take issue with Jay Forresters inclusion of learning environments in approaches limited to providing only "a softer understanding of systems". I agree with Jays main contention that the Society should strive to distinguish between system dynamics and "...activities wh...

Van Bowen asked about modeling student drinking on college campuses. I dont know of any models of alcohol use per se, but there is a model of heroin addiction that may be relevant, at least as a source of ideas on how to model the student drinking problem. In the early 1970s, Ed Roberts, Gil Levin a...

Mathieu Santerre asked about models of diffusion of innovation for use in public policy areas. I recently worked with a group of educators to develop a model of innovation in schools which included curriculum innovation and related changes in areas such as methods of student evaluation. The work was...

Dear Fabian,

You should contact Mike Radzicki (mjradz@wpi.edu) and his colleagues at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute who have done work in the area of measuring
the effectiveness of educational interventions using System Dynamics.
Perhaps they can help you.

Gary Hirsch
GBHirsch@aol.com

The Pugh-Roberts work on affirmative action programs at Polaroid was done by Alan Frohman and Jack Pugh at Pugh-Roberts and Henry Morgan from Polaroid. It was published originally in the Proceedings of the 1973 Summer Computer Simulation Conference and reprinted in Ed Roberts book on Managerial Appl...