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UNINA9910823230403321 |
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Titolo |
Tipping points : modelling social problems and health / / edited by John Bissell [and four others] ; contributors, N. Bellomo [and twenty-one others] |
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Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-99201-6 |
1-118-99200-8 |
1-118-99199-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine - Mathematical models |
Health behavior - Mathematical models |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The smoking epidemic -- Generalised compartmental modelling of health epidemics -- Stochastic modelling for compartmental systems applied to social problems -- Women and smoking in the north east of England -- Mathematical modelling in healthcare -- Tipping points in cardiac surgical performance -- Heart online uncertainty and stability estimation -- Stents, blood flow, and pregnancy -- Tipping points in social dynamics -- From five key questions to a system sociology theory -- Complexity in spatial dynamics -- Conformity bias and catastrophic social change -- The resilience of tipping points -- Psychological perspectives on risk and resilience -- Tipping points and uncertainty in health & health care systems. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book focuses on the modelling of contemporary health and social problems, especially those considered a major burden to communities, governments and taxpayers, such as smoking, alcoholism, drug use, and heart disease. Based on a series of papers presented at a recent conference hosted by the Leverhulme-funded Tipping Points project at the University of Durham, this book illustrates a broad range of |
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