edited by John Bissell, Camila C.S. Caiado, Sarah Curtis, Michael Goldstein and Brian Straughan
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xii, 211 pages).
SERIES
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Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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