Adapted from Pawson and Tilley (1997) and Ratze et al. (2007) by Rosie Sadsad for a forthcoming book chapter. Contextual factors, mechanisms and outcomes are conceptualised as holons. Their state may change over time (t) and across levels of organisation (l). Holons are components and form part of a compound holon. Holons are connected by weak or strong links.
See also
Realist Evaluation IM-1713 and
Holon wikipedia and Multiscale modelling process
IM-10070
Multilevel holons context mechanisms and outcomes
Unfolding story based on Emery Roe's 2013 book Making the Most of Mess, revised in 2026. See also Dynamics in Action IM-3239 for more on behavior and The Art of the State IM-11962 for more on Grid-Group Cultural Theory
Managing Mess
Summary of John Holland's 2012 Book, Signals and Boundaries. Integrator of Classifier, Chemical and Network Adaptive Control and Dynamic Boundaries
Signals and Boundaries
Level of biological organization linking cell level division and population level evolution
Biology levels and genetics
Some AnyLogic Hybrid Model methods and examples taken from Nate Osgood's Bootcamps around 2017 See Nate's AnyLOgic Examples page and links to hybrid examples for more recent videos and examples
Hybrid Health Modeling Strand
From
Roy Bhaskar et al Book Interdisciplinarity and climate change: transforming
knowledge and practice for our global future
Critical Realism
WIP integration of dynamic and complexity insights using rubik's cube metaphor from Pop Health Book insight folders, and others linked in notes
Beyond connecting the dots
WIP Causation insights linked to the Behavior insight and through this to PCT and Dynamics in Action insight. See also Causal Analysis IM and Explaining explanation IM
Causality Explanation and Understanding
Based on Nate Osgood's April 2014 Singapore Presentation Youtube video and Lyle Wallis material Gojii at DecisioTech See also Complex Decison Technologies IM as a more polished version
Complex Intervention Modeling Areas
Small Intestine example from Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology Special Issue 2016 From the century of the genome to the century of the organism: New theoretical approaches paper on organization. Compare with Bogdanov (click tag)
Biology Principles of Organization and Variation 1
Diagrams from Greene 2017 nejm article Putting the patient back together Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism
Network medicine
Based on a book chapter by Rosemarie Sadsad based on her PhD Thesis. See also other Insights tagged Multiscale and Realist ( IM-3546 and IM-3834 are embedded here)
Multiscale modeling process
WIP ideas for group model building representation See later Australian Version Hybrid Insight
Saskatoon Context for Group Model Building
A network view of IM-731.Combination of several other insights under the regional tag, inspired by Padgett and Powell IM-9044
Regional health supply and demand networks
WIP based on Mascia2017 Analyzing conservation strategies article and other mostly private insights. A more detailed form of structure agency IM-1163
Intervention Types Mechanisms and Effects
WIP example of Services oriented multiscale computable narrative synthesis focussed on Coping carefully with diabetes
Diabetes Care
Multilevel context mechanisms and outcomes for hospital infection control
Hospital Infection Factors Levels
WIP Clone of IM-9085 for multiscale frameworks based on ecography article. Vital Signs From NAP Toward Quality Measures for Population Health and the Leading Health Indicators Report WHO NCD Framework picture and IHI Whole system measures 2.0 (Added Nov 2016)
Multiscale Health Processes and Patterns
Hybrid conceptual mapping of relationships involving system causal loop diagram linked with ABM. Output of the problem conceptualization phase of the modelling process prior to developing a computational hybrid model in AnyLogic. Includes Nate Osgood's O PARTIES extension of Ross Hammond's PARTE. See also earlier Canadian version Insight
Conceptual map of hybrid CLD and ABM
Summary of Lancet March 2023 Series See also Structure Agency Insight
Commercial Determinants of Health
WIP Summary of Cell Systems 2024 article Versatile system cores as a conceptual basis
for generality in cell and developmental biology
Core and periphery hypothesis for cells and developmental systems
Adapted from Lane, David C. and Husemann, E. (2008) Steering without Circe: attending to reinforcing loops in social systems. System dynamics review, 24 (1). pp. 37-61. ISSN 0883-706 paper abstract See also Conceptual hybrid mapping IM
Structure Agency
Health specific Clone of Scott Page's Aggregation diagram from Complexity and Sociology 2015 article see also IM-9115 and SA IM-1163
Wellbeing macro micro dynamics
Diagrams of theories of control of destiny at multiple scales as fundamental causes of social determinants of health from Whitehead 2016 article in Health and Place
Control over decisions and health inequalities at multiple scales of experience
