From Jennifer Prah Ruger (2010) Health Capability Conceptualization and Operationalization Am J Public Health 100 p41-49 available from SSRN. Extends Insight 779 with Dahlgren and Whitehead's Sunrise Diagram of Social Determinants of Health added. See also wikipedia Capability Approach
This is a high-level causal loop diagram mapping the impacts of a power outage on FEMA lifelines and associated services, and the resulting potential feedbacks and impacts to human behavior and various dimensions of wellbeing.
A lifeline enables the continuous operation of critical government and business functions and is essential to human health and safety or economic security.
Lifelines are the most fundamental services in the community that, when stabilized, enable all other aspects of society to function.
FEMA has developed a construct for objectives-based response that prioritizes the rapid stabilization of Community Lifelines after a disaster.
The integrated network of assets, services, and capabilities that provide lifeline services are used day-to-day to support the recurring needs of the community and enable all other aspects of society to function.
When disrupted, decisive intervention (e.g., rapid re-establishment or employment of contingency response solutions) is required to stabilize the incident.
Context-dependent characteristics of hazards, households, and infrastructures influencing vulnerability are represented as variables. Variables are constant or dynamically calculated values that can be used to synthesize data, calibrate models, and/or create forcing functions based on the current time.
Lifeline services are represented as converters, which can be used to represent input-output relationships or graphs.
Multiple forms of capital (e.g., human, natural, social, manufactured) are represented as stocks. Stocks are flexible "buckets" into which something can be accumulated or withdrawn from.
This high-level
simulation model presented by Jay Forrester in his book World Dynamics, simulates
socio-economic-environmental world system. The world Model was created in a
time where pollution and other negative effects of industrialization and
economic growth started to become recognized in 1970. For this exam purpose, we have
rebuilt the model to do some experiments and analyze the results.
This model shows the operation of a simple economy. It demonstrates the effect of changes in the fractional rate of consumption (or the converse the fractional rate of saving.)
In summary, lower rates of consumption (based on production) result in higher rates of production and consumption in the long-run.
This page provides a structural analysis of POTUS Candidate Jim Gilmore's
economic policy based on the information at: http://www.gilmoreforamerica.com/jims-growth-code/ The method used is Integrative
Propositional Analysis (IPA)
available:
http://scipolicy.org/uploads/3/4/6/9/3469675/wallis_white_paper_-_the_ipa_answer_2014.12.11.pdf
