HPSIG Snippets 2007-1

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May 2007

• Cancer videogame for teenager education and compliance http://www.re-mission.net/
• A meeting of the EC' Public Health Programme's Expert Group on Social Determinants and Health Inequalities Luxembourg on 7 May. The agenda and papers from the meeting are now available at http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/socio_economics/ev_070507_en.htm
• Managing the Health Millennium Development Goals - The challenge of management strengthening:Lessons from three countries WHO/HSS/healthsystems/2007.1, PDF file, pages 42 at: http://www.who.int/management/WP8.pdf
• Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use: Strategies, Barriers, and Consequences IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2007. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11795.html
• CDC Seeks Director for Preparedness Modeling
• World Health Statistics 2007 Highlights and Tables http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
• PAHO/IDB Workshop Health, Human Development Potential and the Quality of Life: Towards Biological-Based Index of Human Development Potential for Assessing the Quality of Life http://www.iadb.org/res/seminar_specific.cfm?ev_id=36&sm_id=168
• Translating Evidence Into Practice: Are We Neglecting the Neediest? Archives of Internal Medicine EDITORIAL: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/10/987?rss=1
• Ecological genomics: understanding gene and genome function in the natural environment Heredity AOP http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6800992
• How to build a biological model http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrm2186 Virtual Cell http://vcell.org/index.html
• Why global climate models do not give a realistic description of the local climate (Multiscale) http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=441
• Different Countries, Different Needs: The Role of Private Health Insurance in Developing Countries http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/32/3/497?rss=1
• A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/8
• The State of Open Source 3D Modeling http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/114599394/article.pl
• COMMENTARY: The Next Influenza Pandemic: Can It Be Predicted? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/297/18/2025?rss=1
• The Human (Genetic) Disease Network http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/05/the_human_genetic_disease_netw.html
• Origins of major human infectious diseases http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05775
• NONMEDICAL DETERMINANTS: It Ain’t Fair–More Results From The Whitehall Studies http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/05/17/nonmedical-determinants-it-aint-fair-more-results-from-the-whitehall-studies/
• Why a Famous Counterfactual Historian Loves Making History With Games http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/118317390/gamefrontiers_0521
• Systems biology and global warming http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/05/systems_biology_global_warming_1.html

• Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0040150
• KaiserEDU Health Policy Picks http://www.kaiseredu.org/picks/health_policy_picks.aspx
• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies E-Bulletin May 2007. http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/ListServer/20070522_1
• The “Realistic” Way to Do US Health Care Reform http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/05/realistic-way-to-do-health-care-reform.html
• Whither equity in health? The state of the poor in Latin America. Paul Farmer PDF [6p.] at: http://www.scielosp.org/pdf/csp/v23s1/02.pdf
• How Did Social Medicine Evolve, and Where Is It Heading? Dorothy Porter http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030399
• Using Population Segmentation to Provide Better Health Care for All:The “Bridges to Health” Model JOANNE LYNN et al The Milbank Quarterly - Volume 85, Number 2, June 2007 http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8502feat.html
• Drug Expenditure in Canada, 1985 to 2006 PDF [153p.] at: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=AR_80_E&cw_topic=80
• Time interview on new Michael Moore US health movie Sicko http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622178,00.html
• A typology of actions to tackle social inequalities in health Margaret Whitehead J. Epidemiol. Community Health – June 2007; Volume 61, Number 6;473-478 http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/61/6/473?etoc
• Health Care's Retail Solution Resilience Report: http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00046
• Analyzing Changes in Health Financing Arrangements in High-Income Countries A Comprehensive Framework Approach World Bank PDF file [55p] http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/BusseAnalyzingChangesinHealthFinancingFinal.pdf
• Taking Action on Health Equity Final report of the Closing the Gap; Strategies for Action to Tackle Health Inequalities in the EU initiative – May 2007 PDF file: [39p.] at: http://www.health-inequalities.eu/pdf.php?id=419761e2010b7de806b4477c8dc3d8f4
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care by Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis, Ph. D., http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=482678&#doc482678
• Primer to Action: Social Determinants of Health Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and the Canadian Cancer Society – Ontario Division, Canada 2007 36p.] at: http://www.ocdpa.on.ca/docs/Primer%20to%20Action%20SDOH%20Final.pdf
• Review: What's Wrong with Doctors By Richard Horton. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, Houghton Mifflin, Publisher The New York Review of Books, Volume 54, Number 9 • May 31, 2007 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20214
• TED Rosling video on gapminder data presentation software http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
• 2008-09 Packer Policy Fellowships An Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship Program http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships/fellowships_list.htm?attrib_id=9158
• Results of Network Visualisation Contest http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~efhardy/07netsci/submissions.html#social
• Update on the VisANT Systems Biology "Zooming" multidimensional maps of the cell software and uses http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/05/semantic_zooming_of_networks.html
• SD Jobs in Healthcare
  • Sr/Lead Simulation Modeler 5+ years of simulation modeling experience Experience in System Dynamics a must
  • Associate Simulation Modeler 0 – 5 years of simulation modeling experience Experience in System Dynamics a plus
  • Contact Jackie Petrecz Health Market Science jpetreczAThealthmarketscience.com http://www.healthmarketscience.com
• Tuberculosis control; Promising new tools for prevention, detection and cure;How reliable are the data? Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT) - Volume 85, Number 5, May 2007, 325-420 http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/5/en/index.html
• FUNDING UK HEALTH CARE: 2008 AND BEYOND http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/resources/publications/funding_health.html
• Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries The United Nations Children’s Fund, 2007 [52p.]: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc7_eng.pdf

April 2007

• Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights Paul Farmer - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values [52p.] http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/Farmer_2006.pdf
• Governing the Future UK, The House of Commons, 22 February 2007 [49p.]http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmpubadm/123/123i.pdf
• The United States Health Workforce Profile. Website: http://chws.albany.edu/index.php?id=11,0,0,1,0,0
• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies E-Bulletin.April 2007 (Belgium,Bulgaria,Economic Consequences of Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries in the Russian Federation) http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/ListServer/20070416_1
• DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT: THE EFFECT OF LIFE EXPECTANCY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH [88p.] at: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12269.pdf or URL: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12269
• Winter 2007 NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/winter07/winter07.pdf
• Why it's unhealthy to be a man in Russia http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1719.cfm
• Comparative Analysis of Alcohol Control Policies in 30 Countries http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040151
• Healthy Ageing A CHALLENGE FOR EUROPE Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2007 [228p] http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/Healthy_ageing.pdf
• Assessing the impact of a care innovation: telecare Steffen Bayer, James Barlow, Richard Curry System Dynamics Review http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114229041/ABSTRACT
• The moral foundations of health insurance Jennifer Prah RugerQuarterly Journal of Medicine, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 53-57, January 2007 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957971
• Integrating Physician Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/04/10/integrating-diagnosis-and-treatment-in-markets-for-health-care/
• Capturing Human Behaviour (in Epidemics) Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/446733a
• US Diabetic complications prevalent http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=44176
• Egalitarian motives in humans Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05651
• How the US Health care debate has changed http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=44218
• P4P and Quality Incentives can hurt the poor, minorities http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/04/13/quality-p4p-and-quality-incentives-can-hurt-poor-minority-patients/
• The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology Nature Reviews Microbiology http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1643
• ABM of Complex Spatial Systems Agenda Setting http://gisagents.blogspot.com/2007/04/casa-at-agenda-setting-workshop-on-abm.html
• Rules of Engagement Nature Connections http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/446860a
• Developmental Biology by Numbers NAture Reviews Genetics http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2098
• Who is sick? (self-reporting via Google Maps) http://www.simdot.org/simblog/archives/2007/04/who_is_sick_use.html
• Obesity Disability and Mortality Editorial http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/8/750?rss=1
• Physician Supply and Practice during a Malpractice Crisis http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.3.w425v1?rss=1
• To Build a Better Model (Systems Biology) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0307-367
• Where did all the good times go? (Barbara Ehrenreich on why we used to be so much happier) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Lifeandhealth/health/story/0,,2047969,00.html?=rss
• THe Health Wonk Review: New and Improved US Health System http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/04/health-wonk-review-new-and-improved-us.html
• Complexity and Medicine: Monitoring of ICU Patients http://www.ontonix.com/blog/2007/04/08/complexity-and-medicine-monitoring-of-patients-in-an-icu/
• Capturing Human Behaviour (In Epidemics) Neil Ferguson Nature Connections http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/446733a
• Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Book) Joshua M. Epstein http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8277.html
• Introduction to Computational Science (Book) http://www.wofford-ecs.org/IntroComputationalScience/index.htm

March 2007

• JAMA EDITORIAL: The International Pandemic of Chronic Cardiovascular Disease http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/297/11/1253?rss=1
• Continuing Efforts in Global Chronic Disease Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/apr/07_0024.htm?s_cid=pcd42a21_x
• HEALTH REFORM: Redefining Health Care Michael Porter http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/23/health-reform-redefining-health-care/
• [Web Exclusives] Variations In Practice Quality In Five Low-Income Countries: A Conceptual Overview http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.3.w296v1?rss=1
• Modeling biochemical transformation processes and information processing with Narrator (includes SD) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/103 and http://www.narrator-tool.org
• CDC SYNDEMICS PREVENTION NETWORK SPRING 2007 SYMPOSIA SERIES ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE
  • Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health Presented by: Patty Mabry, Ph.D., Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., John Sterman, Ph.D. and Ken McLeroy, Ph.D.
  • Videocast/Podcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?file=13712
  • Rapid Evolution Slide References
    • Conover, D. and S. Munch (2002) Sustaining fisheries yields over evolutionary time scales. Science 297 (5 July) 94-96.
    • Heath, D. et al. (2003) Rapid evolution of egg size in captive salmon. Science. 299 (14 March), 1738-1740.
    • Homer, J. et al. (2000) Toward a theory of antibiotic resistance. System Dynamics Review. 16(4), 287-319.
    • Nowak, M. and K. Sigmund (2004) Evolutionary dynamics of biological games. Science. 303 (6 February), 793-799.
    • Turchin, P. (2003) Evolution in population dynamics. Nature. 424 (17 July), 257-258.
    • Yoshida, T et al. (2003) Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system. Nature. 424 (17July), 303.

• Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health Symposium Invitation May 30 - 31, 2007 - Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.complexityandhealth2007.org
• SimTecT 2007 Simulation Conference http://www.simulationinformation.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=734&Itemid=2
• EDITORIAL: The Promise of Preventive Interventions Depends on Robust Health Care Delivery Archives of Internal Medicine http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/6/532?rss=1
• JAMA BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/297/11/1259-a?rss=1
• Neurosciences game for schools http://www.morphonix.com (from Serious Games)
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization March 2007 Theme issue: health and foreign policy; Health and security; Migration and health; How does climate change affect public health?;Health impact assessment; Country case studies: Malaysia and Thailand http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/3/07-000307/en/index.html
• Complexity online http://www.ontonix.com/blog/2007/03/26/complexity-on-line-risk-and-crystal-ball/
• A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design Hiroaki Kitano Nature Reviews Drug Discovery http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrd2195
• Iowa's Health Prediction Market for Influenza http://fluprediction.uiowa.edu/fluhome/index.html
• Interorganizational Network Structures and Diffusion of Information Through a Health System http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2005.063669v1?papetoc
• Shared visualisation and discovery website IBM ManyEyes http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
• How Doctors Think http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/03/16/how-doctors-think/
• TECH: Can Health Care Learn From Other Industries? http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/
• JAMA EDITORIAL: Access to Care as a Component of Health System Reform http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/297/10/1128?rss=1
• Archives of Int Med EDITORIAL: Longevity and Cardiovascular Disease: Context and Overview http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/5/428?rss=1
• Archives of Int Med EDITORIAL: Two-Tiered Health Care: A Problematic Double Standard http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/5/430?rss=1
• Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/ExtendingTheCure.pdf?c=EMC-CA140
• Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision Making http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=964683

February, 2007

• Agenda Setting Workshop: Improving Evidence Based Policy Decisions: Piloting the Application of Advanced Computer Modelling Techniques to Real Life Policy Problems

Presentations from this workshop are now available at http://www.ncess.ac.uk.events/ASW/evidence/ (From UK e-Social Sciences Newsletter) one presentation also via GIS and agent based blog http://gisagents.blogspot.com/2007/02/improving-evidence-based-policy.html

• Neurological disorders: Public health challenges WHO (9Mb File): http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/neurological_disorders_report_web.pdf
• Reducing Waste in US Health Care Systems Roger W. Bush JAMA 2007;297 871-874 http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/871?etoc and http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=43252
• A global perspective on health promotion and the social determinants of health Health Promotion Journal of Australia - December 2006 Volume 17, No 3

[116p.]: http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/journal_dec06.pdf Available free until Monday, 12 March 2007

• THE POLITICS OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS IN RUSSIA AND BRAZIL: HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONS, CULTURE, AND STATE CAPACITY Eduardo J. Gómez Working Paper No. 4 -June 2006 - HARVARD INITIATIVE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/documents/WorkingPaper4.pdf
• There is a US Health Care Reform Plan That Doesn't Duck the Big Issues (NCHC Reform Plan) http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-health-care-reform-plan-that.html
• Quality or equality? The Norwegian experience with medical monopolies BMC Health Services Research – February 2007 http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-7-20.pdf
• Discrimination – a threat to public health National Institute of Public Health (FHI)Sweden 2006 48p. http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/r200622_diskrimination_eng.pdf
• Towards a more health promoting health service Swedish National Institute of Public Health, December 2006 56p. http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200630_health_promoting_0702.pdf
• The UK NHS Reforms need reform Chris Ham http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2021390,00.html?=rss
• Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2007.39
• Planning and Studying Improvement in Patient Care: The Use of Theoretical Perspectives The Milbank Quarterly Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 93-138, Jan 2007 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00478.x?ai=11c&mi=4zzn5&af=R
• The Future of US Medicaid Is it sustainable? Kaiser Webcast Interview http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2057 Panel http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2052

and 2 Health Affairs papers http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w254 and http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w271

• WHO Health Metrics Network http://www.who.int/healthmetrics/en/
• Kaiser EDU Health Policy Picks http://www.kaiseredu.org/picks/health_policy_picks.aspx
• External Stimuli Mediate Collective Biological Rhythms: Artificial Control Strategies http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000231
• JAMA COMMENTARY: Pay-for-Performance: Will the Latest Payment Trend Improve Care? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/297/7/740?rss=1
• Nature Essays Connections http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/essays/index.html
• US Health Care Spending Projected To Pass $4 Trillion Mark By 2016 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/02/21/costs-health-spending-to-double-by-2016-government-share-to-reach-50-percent/ and Article http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w242
• Useless Arithmetic: why environmental scientists can't predict the future Book Review http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20book.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin (via Richard Dudley, Environmental SIG)
• Drug pricing market study 10 countries UK Office of Fair Trading http://www.oft.gov.uk/News/Press+releases/2007/29-07.htm
• Beyond standardization: dynamic software infrastructures for systems biology Nature Reviews Genetics http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2048
• Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Canada OECD Working Paper http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/40/37868186.pdf
• Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions Karen Davis, Commonwealth Fund BMJ 2007;334:346-348 (17 February, 2007) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7589/346
• Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid About caBIG https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview/cabig-primer/
• 2007 US National Health Policy Conference from AcademyHealth and Health Affairs Webcast http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2032
• Transformative Imaging Technology http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w227v1?rss=1
• Canadian Public Policy special electronic supplement issue on Health Human Resources Policy in the 21st Century January 2007 http://economics.ca/cpp/en/special2007.php
• Explaining "Noise" as Environmental Variations in Population Dynamics (From CiSE Stochastic Modeling Special Issue) http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/cs/&toc=comp/mags/cs/2007/02/c2toc.xml
• Avian Influenza Pre-pandemic procurement MIT Technology and Policy http://esd.mit.edu/WPS/2007/esd-wp-2007-03.pdf
• Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2006: The changing landscape of health research for development. Global Forum for Health Research 108p. http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/monitoring_financial_flows_06/Financial%20Flows%202006.pdf
• Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11797.html
• Toxic (public-private) interactions and the future of US healthcare http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/02/08/coverage-strange-bedfellows-toxic-interactions-and-the-future-of-schip/
• Shopping For Price In Medical Care Ginsburg PB http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w208v1?rss=1
• The move towards transparency in health care public reporting http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=449503&#doc449503
• Global reconstruction of the human metabolic network based on genomic and bibliomic data http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/6/1777 and http://www.simdot.org/simblog/archives/2007/02/human_biochemic.html
• Long-term and short-term customer reaction: a two-stage queueing approach Ann van Ackere, Christian Haxholdt, Erik R. Larsen Syst. Dyn. Rev. 22, 349–369, (2006)

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114107331/ABSTRACT (Relevant to patient flow)

• US Health Reform and the Political Agenda http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/02/05/health-reform-and-the-political-agenda/
• European Research Group on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems - ERGICHCS http://www.uni-wh.de/projects/ergo-inch-health/
• Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (October 2006) http://plaza.ufl.edu/mtheaney/Heaney_Brokerage_2006.pdf

• Simulation and prediction of in vivo drug metabolism in human populations from in vitro data Nature Reviews Drug Discovery http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrd2173

January, 2007

• Worldmapper: The Human Anatomy of a Small Planet Danny Dorling PLoS Med 4(1): e1 http://doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040001
• Review of System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts by Szallasi, Stelling and Periwal http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/6/1/4
• Slowing the Growth of U.S. Health Care Expenditures: What Are the Options? The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=449510&#doc449510

• HEALTH AFFAIRS WEB EXCLUSIVE R A P I D L E A R N I N G 26 January 2007

Rapid Learning Table Of Contents http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.26.2.w107/DC2

includes Linking Electronic Medical Records To Large-Scale Simulation Models: Can We Put Rapid Learning On Turbo? David M. Eddy

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w125 Perspective: Archimedes: A Bold Step Into The Future John R. Lumpkin

• HPSIG_Session_on_Chronic_Illness for Boston ISDC 2006 Conference Call for Submissions

• What Should Macroeconomists Know about Health Care Policy? International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2007/wp0713.pdf
• Diffusion of complex health innovations--implementation of primary health care reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rifat A Atun, Ioannis Kyratsis, Gordan Jelic, Drazenka Rados-Malicbegovic, and Ipek Gurol-Urganci Health Policy Plan. 2007 22: 28-39. http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/28?etoc

• Good spots, bad spots (Eradicating Measles) from the Economist http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8575707&fsrc=nwl
• Tackling drugs to reduce poverty http://www.id21.org/health/InsightsHealth10editorial.html
• Expected Value of Information and Decision Making in Health Technology Assessment http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/01/25/expected-value-of-information-and-decision-making-in-health-technology-assessment/
• Conceptual modelling for simulation Part I: definition and requirements http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602368
• Conceptual modelling for simulation Part II: a framework for conceptual modelling http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602369
• Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040013
• Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrn2073
• GLOBAL HEALTH: Where Is The Money To Help Poor Countries With Heart Disease? http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/01/22/global-health-where-is-the-money-to-help-poor-countries-with-heart-disease/
• PHYSICIANS AND HOSPITALS: Can They Cooperate To Control Costs? http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/01/19/physicians-and-hospitals-can-they-cooperate-to-control-costs/
• Sanitation "greatest medical milestone since 1840" http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-01-18T142632Z_01_L1828520_RTRUKOC_0_US-MILESTONE.xml
• JORS Special Issue on Health Care http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/health-PR.html
  • OR and the challenge to improve the NHS: modelling for insight and improvement in in-patient flows http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602252
  • Choice of modelling technique for evaluating health care interventions http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602230
• A stochastic model for circadian rhythms from coupled ultradian oscillators http://www.tbiomed.com/content/4/1/1
• Trends In The Burden, Treatment, And Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/1/12?rss=1
• Quantitative networks: a symbolic approach to analyze biological signaling networks http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/1/4
• The value of healthcare - a matter of discussion in Germany http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/7/1
• Worldmapper Maps 255-266 (relating to Death) are now available http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_death.html
• Do No Harm: The Global Health Challenge" by Laurie Garrett. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86103/laurie-garrett/the-challenge-of-global-health.html
• The Physics of Climate Modeling http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-60/iss-1/72_1.html and The Discovery of Global Warming http://www.aip.org/history/climate/
• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies E-Bulletin JAn 2007 http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/ListServer/20070116_1
  • 1. New Eurohealth - Focus on France
  • 2. New Euro Observer - Assisted reproduction technologies
  • 3. New Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profile, Armenia
  • 4. New Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profile, Australia
• Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza: A Letter Report Committee on Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza ISBN: 0-309-66819-0, 47 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, (2006) free PDF download from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11800.html
• Modelling of Care Processes. The use of Simulation Models for the Design of Health Care Environments PhD Marie Elf http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/full_record/24431.html
• Cardiovascular Disease & Society: Health Affairs January/February 2007; Vol. 26, No. 1 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol26/issue1/?etoc
• Learning from High Performance Health Systems Around the Globe Karen Davis The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=441618&#doc441618