In recent years, there has been significant interest in developing system dynamics
simulation models to analyze complex healthcare problems. However, there is a lack of …

Complex systems abound in public health. Complex systems are made up of heterogeneous
elements that interact with one another, have emergent properties that are not explained by …

Policies to promote public health and welfare often fail or worsen the problems they are
intended to solve. Evidence-based learning should prevent such policy resistance, but …

This article reports the first systematic literature review of system dynamics (SD) applications
in health and medicine published between 1960 and 2018. We categorize SD contributions …

Global rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are increasing globally
concomitant with a rising prevalence of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders …

Fueled by the rapid pace of discovery, humankind's ability to understand the ultimate causes
of preventable common disease burdens and to identify solutions is now reaching a …

Background: First Nations people in Canada experience a disproportionate burden of type 2
diabetes mellitus. To increase our understanding of this evolving epidemic, we compared …

Introduction: The value of systems science modelling methods in the health sector is
increasingly being recognised. Of particular promise is the potential of these methods to …

Background About 40% of all health burden in New Zealand is due to cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes/obesity. Outcomes for Māori (indigenous …

Background The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of diabetes mellitus
(DM) in Iran from 2009 to 2030. Methods A Markov micro-simulation (MM) model was …