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Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review
There is an increasing focus on the role of complexity in public health and public policy fields which has brought about a methodological shift towards computational approaches. This includes agent-based modelling (ABM), a method used to simulate individuals, their behaviour and interactions with ea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9779847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416807 |
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author | Boyd, Jennifer Wilson, Rebekah Elsenbroich, Corinna Heppenstall, Alison Meier, Petra |
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description | There is an increasing focus on the role of complexity in public health and public policy fields which has brought about a methodological shift towards computational approaches. This includes agent-based modelling (ABM), a method used to simulate individuals, their behaviour and interactions with each other, and their social and physical environment. This paper aims to systematically review the use of ABM to simulate the generation or persistence of health inequalities. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (1 January 2013–15 November 2022) were searched, supplemented with manual reference list searching. Twenty studies were included; fourteen of them described models of health behaviours, most commonly relating to diet (n = 7). Six models explored health outcomes, e.g., morbidity, mortality, and depression. All of the included models involved heterogeneous agents and were dynamic, with agents making decisions, growing older, and/or becoming exposed to different health risks. Eighteen models represented physical space and in eleven models, agents interacted with other agents through social networks. ABM is increasingly contributing to our understanding of the socioeconomic inequalities in health. However, to date, the majority of these models focus on the differences in health behaviours. Future research should attempt to investigate the social and economic drivers of health inequalities using ABM. |
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spelling | pubmed-97798472022-12-23 Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review Boyd, Jennifer Wilson, Rebekah Elsenbroich, Corinna Heppenstall, Alison Meier, Petra Int J Environ Res Public Health Review There is an increasing focus on the role of complexity in public health and public policy fields which has brought about a methodological shift towards computational approaches. This includes agent-based modelling (ABM), a method used to simulate individuals, their behaviour and interactions with each other, and their social and physical environment. This paper aims to systematically review the use of ABM to simulate the generation or persistence of health inequalities. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (1 January 2013–15 November 2022) were searched, supplemented with manual reference list searching. Twenty studies were included; fourteen of them described models of health behaviours, most commonly relating to diet (n = 7). Six models explored health outcomes, e.g., morbidity, mortality, and depression. All of the included models involved heterogeneous agents and were dynamic, with agents making decisions, growing older, and/or becoming exposed to different health risks. Eighteen models represented physical space and in eleven models, agents interacted with other agents through social networks. ABM is increasingly contributing to our understanding of the socioeconomic inequalities in health. However, to date, the majority of these models focus on the differences in health behaviours. Future research should attempt to investigate the social and economic drivers of health inequalities using ABM. MDPI 2022-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9779847/ /pubmed/36554687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416807 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Boyd, Jennifer Wilson, Rebekah Elsenbroich, Corinna Heppenstall, Alison Meier, Petra Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title | Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | agent-based modelling of health inequalities following the complexity turn in public health: a systematic review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9779847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416807 |
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