Tipping points : modelling social problems and health /

• Other Authors: Bissell, John J. (Editor), Caiado, Camila C. S. (Editor), Curtis, Sarah, 1954- (Editor), Goldstein, Michael, 1949- (Editor), Straughan, B. (Brian) (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
• Series: Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science.
• Subjects: Social medicine > Mathematical models.; Health behavior > Mathematical models.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Social Medicine > methods.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• 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.