Essential Health Policy Readings

[Sanjoy Roy sroy hsc.wvu.edu]

Posted by Sanjoy Roy <sroy@hsc.wvu.edu>
Dear HPSIG,

I am planning to propose system dynamic modeling of a medical
assistance program to simulate and test impacts on potential economic,
clinical and (hopefully) humanistic outcomes as a result of policy
changes and program interventions. I was wondering if people could
kindly direct me to essential readings and other similar work.
Thanks and best regards.

Sanjoy ROY
Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy,
Rational Drug Therapy Program &
Injury Control Research Center
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506-9510
Posted by Sanjoy Roy <sroy@hsc.wvu.edu>
posting date Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:08:09 -0400

[Geoff McDonnell gmcdonne bigpond]

Posted by ""Geoff McDonnell"" <gmcdonne@bigpond.net.au>
Hi Sanjoy
There is a vast amount of Literature on Health Policy and Program
Interventions, and much less using System Dynamics Modeling and other
simulation techniques.
The health policy special interest group (HPSIG) of the SD Society now has
over 110 members and will be putting together a more significant online
presence, including a wiki, over the next few months, thanks to Mark
Heffernan's efforts.
Jack Homer, Gary Hirsch, Bobby Milstein, myself and others have compiled
various reference lists in various places.
Key articles on SD and Public Health are due to be published soon in the
American Journal of Public Health, around Nov 2005.
An archive of more recent HPSIG snippets, set up by JAck Homer, is available
at http://hpsig.blogspot.com/

A special 1999 Vol 15 No3 issue of the System Dynamics Review on Health is
also available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- ... e/66003875

In the meantime there are some references in the Course Overview of a Health
Systems Simulation Course I teach, at
http://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcm.nsf/ ... enDocument
I also maintain a Spreadsheet and weblinks of health systems simulation
references, and am happy to share it with you and others, while we are
working on a more elaborate web presence.

For those interested in this area, please join the HPSIG email list, by
sending me an email.

regards
geoff
Dr Geoff McDonnell
Director Adaptive Care Systems
Simulation Research Fellow Centre for Health Informatics
President, HPSIG
gmcdonne@bigpond.net.au
Posted by ""Geoff McDonnell"" <gmcdonne@bigpond.net.au>
posting date Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:03:51 +1000

[Leischow Scott (NIH/NCI) leischo]

Posted by ""Leischow, Scott (NIH/NCI)"" <leischos@mail.nih.gov>
Geoff and group: In addition to the links below, the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) has also developed an effort called Initiative on the Study
and Implementation of Systems (ISIS). This effort is not SD exclusively.
It also includes other modeling approaches such as simultaneous equations
modeling, but also includes network analyses, knowledge
management/informatics, and systems-oriented organizational development
components. An NCI Monograph on systems thinking re tobacco control as an
examplar of addressing other public health problems is in the works, and NCI
just funded this initiative for another 2 years. In addition to NCI,
several other organizations are now collaborating as well, including the
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Legacy Foundation and
others. If anyone would like more information, please contact Stephen
Marcus at NCI (marcusst@mail.nih.gov) or Pam Clark (clarkp@battelle) for
more information.

Scott
Posted by ""Leischow, Scott (NIH/NCI)"" <leischos@mail.nih.gov>
posting date Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:17:19 -0400