An example of why it's so critical to understand where the boundaries are when considering a system. Go to Gene's version insight
Clone of Hospital Early Discharge Boundaries (Old version)
ithink example from isee systems using receptors
Michaelis Menten Kinetics
Chronic Malnutrition Stock Flow Map
Michael Marmot's Eur J Epidemiol Essay 2017 See also IM-62760 Social determinants of health from Michael Marmot's ABC 2016 Boyer Lectures on Social Justice and the Health Gap
Social Justice, Epidemiology and Health Inequalities
From Tarek KA Hamid's Book Thinking in Circles About Obesity Springer 2009
Obesity Thinking in Circles
Gross theory of emotion regulation from Saras Chung ISDC 2015
Abstract See also Tibor Bosse's Computational model paper
Emotion Regulation and Stress
Medical Sustainability_p3
Based on Ransohoff DF, McNaughton Collins M, Fowler FJ. Why is prostate cancer screening so common when the evidence is so uncertain? A system without negative feedback. Am J Med. 2002;113:663-7. See IM-15991 for a generic Stock Flow Map
Prostate Cancer Screening
WIP Understanding pathways to observed effects complex causation Pathways Moving to Opportunity NYC example from Nate Osgood's big data lecture youtube video Feb 2017 Sydney.
Potential and actual causal mechanisms
Kidney replacement therapy dynamics extended to dialysis management
Kidney Dialysis and Transplant CLD Extended
Created in James Madison University's ISAT 341 Simulation and Modeling course by Joseph Straub and Andrew Funkhouser. Based on Mark Heffernan's Glucose-Insulin Insight Maker
Glucose Insulin Model Info:
Translated from Hormone.stm in Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences James L hargrove, Springer 1998, Ch 24 p255-261, by Mark Heffernan.
Type 1 Diabetes
WIP for LHN Individual Hospital O Month of October 2013 linking monthly NWAUs and same and overnight activities from ED and Elective Surgery (ES)
Individual Hospital Monthly Performance
Major stocks and flows of Erythropoiesis and Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESA) Dosing in Anemia due to Renal Failure from Jim Rogers. See Simulation Insight
ESA Dosing in Renal Anemia
From Jennifer Prah Ruger (2010) Health Capability Conceptualization and Operationalization Am J Public Health 100 p41-49 available from SSRN Extended slightly in IM-791 so use of this is deprecated.
Health Capability Map
Gavan Lintern's Decision Ladder of Cognitive states and processes associated with the Ladder of Inference IM-351
Decision Ladder
Showing how multiple effect loops for private patients in public hospitals can be represented as a causal loop diagram (CLD)
Causal loop diagram for loops of public private hospital funding
A work in progress model for ED hourly arrival flows based on reported statistics by triage category with individual triage categories dis-aggregated using vectors. Based on a hospital performance report from http://www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/publications/hospital_quarterly_3
Split of IM-2166
ED flows by triage categories with hourly arrival
Proceso de contagios en COVID19
Update to the original IM-636 from around 2002 based on 2017 discussion/inquiry into improving private health insurance in Australia
Health Insurance and Service Dynamics Update
WIP based on 2016 article The Dynamics of Addiction: Craving versus Self-Control. See also insight with additional nicotine addiction dynamics IM added
Addiction dynamics
Causal loop diagram unfolding story based on Jack Homer's paper Worker burnout: a dynamic model See IM-333 for the Simulation model and IM-2178 for a related Causal Loop Diagram of Project Turnover
Burnout Dynamics CLD rich pic
An exploration of interactions among 'fuzzy' qualitative concepts that interact to produce either tolerance or violent conflict. Z509 p43-49 System Zoo 3 by Hartmut Bossel.
Aggression
Adam Smith's The Invisible Hand: The Feedback Structure of Markets. From Sterman JD Business Dynamics p170 Fig 5-26. A price-mediated resource allocation system..
Price control mechanism
Replaced by IM-752 Causal Loop Rich Picture unfolding from Repenning, N. and J. Sterman (2002). Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47: 265 - 295. http://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/docs/Repenning-2002-CapabilityTraps.pdf
Capability Traps