Tipping points
Subtitle: modelling social problems and health
By: edited by John Bissell, Camila C.S. Caiado, Sarah Curtis, Michael Goldstein and Brian Straughan, University of Durham, UK
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781118752753
Subjects: Mathematical models; Health behavior; Social medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The smoking epidemic; title: Generalised compartmental modelling of health epidemics; title: Stochastic modelling for compartmental systems applied to social problems; title: Women and smoking in the north east of England; title: Mathematical modelling in healthcare; title: Tipping points in cardiac surgical performance; title: Heart online uncertainty and stability estimation; title: Stents, blood flow, and pregnancy; title: Tipping points in social dynamics; title: From five key questions to a system sociology theory; title: Complexity in spatial dynamics; title: Conformity bias and catastrophic social change; title: The resilience of tipping points; title: Psychological perspectives on risk and resilience; title: Tipping points and uncertainty in health & health care systems.