Description: Modeling Behavior in Complex Public Health Systems : Simulation and Games for Action and Evaluation, Paperback by Keane, Christopher, ISBN 0826110177, ISBN-13 9780826110176, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Keane (behavioral and community health sciences, U. of Pittsburgh) demonstrates methods for modeling health behavioral actions and interactions in the form of rules simple enough to play in board games, to show public health students how to program these health behaviors in a simulation and how complexity science and agent-based modeling apply to public health problems. He uses NetLogo, a free and software, as the environment for creating models, and teaches students to translate individual behaviors to computational simulations and observe and analyze any collective emergence. He introduces the basics of simulating health behavior using a simple model of how collective tolerance can emerge from individual intolerance; presents an evolutionary ecological model of behavior; and discusses major variables in health behavior theory and how to model key variables in standard health behavioral change theory. He addresses thresholds, metastability, and behavioral avalanches; networks of conditional interaction; balancing short and long-term reward; diversity and sensitivity; health intention and need satisfaction; interaction logic modeling for planning programs; and global-local dilemmas, meta-balancing, and public health. Chapters present board-game simulations of systems, followed by simulations and instructions for converting the game rules for behavior into if-then statements and programming these rules in NetLogo. No programming background is needed. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Modeling Behavior in Complex Public Health Systems : Simulation a
Author: Keane, Christopher
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