Clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery. Includes Forrester quotes on statistical vs SD methods and the Modeller's dilemma. Simplified version of IM-14982 combined with IM-17598 and IM-9773
Complex Decision Technologies
COM-B model of behaviour change from Michie 2011 Implementation Science article Structure agency IM-1163 added for social context. Integration with other behaviour frameworks WIP. See also nested representation Attempt at combining simulations WIP is at IM-35784
COM-B Behaviour Change Model Wheel
WIP Understanding pathways to observed effects complex causation Pathways Moving to Opportunity NYC example from Nate Osgood's big data lecture youtube video Feb 2017 Sydney.
Potential and actual causal mechanisms
A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for implementing a systems approach, including virtual intervention experiments using computer simulation models. See also
Complex Decision Technologies IMInterventions and leverage points added in IM-1400 (complex!)
Systems Methods
WIP integration of dynamic and complexity insights using rubik's cube metaphor from Pop Health Book insight folders, and others linked in notes
Beyond connecting the dots
Learning THread for hybrid models including Grimm's ODD and Nate Osgood's ABM Modeling Process and Courses
Dynamic Models Learning Content
Decision making accuracy depends on ecological validity of indicator uses and subjective use of cues (fallible tangible indicators) Extended to clinical risk and action in IM-62657 See medical decision making 2016 article abstract
Brunswik Lens Model
From MIT ESD work (de Weck Ilities ) esp on Survivability (Medecki) http://bit.ly/HVsceb and Unarticulated Value (Ross) 2006 PhD pdf
System Change Value and Ilities
Gavan Lintern's Decision Ladder of Cognitive states and processes associated with the Ladder of Inference IM-351
Decision Ladder
Overview of Evaluation Approaches from Pawson and Tilley's Book comparing Realist, Constructivist, Experimental and Pragmatic Evaluation Approaches. Combined with Van de Ven's Alternative Philosophies of Science in his Engaged Scholarship book. See also Burrell and Morgan's research paradigms video
Realistic and Other Evaluation Methods
From
Roy Bhaskar et al Book Interdisciplinarity and climate change: transforming
knowledge and practice for our global future
Critical Realism
Adapted from Lane, David C. and Husemann, E. (2008) Steering without Circe: attending to reinforcing loops in social systems. System dynamics review, 24 (1). pp. 37-61. ISSN 0883-706 paper abstract See also Conceptual hybrid mapping IM
Structure Agency
Adapted from Fig 13.1 p.523 of the Book: James A. Forte ( 2007), Human Behavior and The Social Environment: Models, Metaphors and Maps for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice Thomson Brooks/Cole Belmont ISBN 0-495-00659-9
Critical Theory Map
Similar layout to CEU insight based on 2016 Land Use Science article on Causal Analysis by Patrick Meyfroidt This is focussed on causal chains
Causal Analysis
From Am J Public Health April 2015 Article Relates to Service Identification in the Health Service Network Improvement Matrix IM
Health Care Delivery Framework
WIP Causation insights linked to the Behavior insight and through this to PCT and Dynamics in Action insight. See also Causal Analysis IM and Explaining explanation IM
Causality Explanation and Understanding
From Marken PCT and Causation blog entry First use of button API
Additional PCT Causation and Behavior insights have been added and tagged
Causation Association and Control
From Stephen Toulmin's Book The Uses of Argument Cambridge University Press 2003. See wikipedia Also Francis Miller Claim Hexagon 2025 web article
Toulmin and Miller Argument Models
From Hieronymi's 2013 Systems Research Paper Understanding Systems Science. Systems Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies see insight
Understanding Systems Science
WIP to explain iterative modelling of linkages over space and time see also causal pathways IM
Linkages among objects
Grimm's ODD and Nate Osgood's ABM Modeling Process and Courses See also Pattern Oriented Modelling IM-3834
The Modelling Process
WIP based on conversations with Jim Rogers
Service Process Improvement
An overview of Thomas A Goudge's Book on The Thought of CS Peirce Dover NY 1950 and Thomas Knight's Book Charles Peirce NY 1965. See also causality insight
The Thought of CS Peirce