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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822168003321

Autore

Alper Joe

Titolo

How modeling can inform strategies to improve population health : workshop summary / / Institute of Medicine (U.S.) ; Joe Alper and Amy Geller, rapporteurs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-309-37851-6

0-309-37849-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 pages)

Disciplina

362.10184

Soggetti

Medical care - United States - Mathematical models

Health promotion - United States - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Setting the context -- Case studies of models used to inform health policy -- What would public health decision makers like from models? -- Barriers and opportunities for using models to inform population health interventions and policies -- Opportunities for the future -- Final thoughts: ideas for the future -- Appendix A: References -- Appendix B: Workshop agenda -- Appendix C: Biographical sketches of workshop speakers.

Sommario/riassunto

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop to explore the potential uses of simulation and other types of modeling for the purpose of selecting and refining potential strategies, ranging from interventions to investments, to improve the health of communities and the nation's health. Participants worked to identify how modeling could inform population health decision making based on lessons learned from models that have been, or have not been, used successfully, opportunities and barriers to incorporating models into decision making, and data needs and opportunities to leverage existing data and to collect new data for modeling. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop.--