Tipping points : modelling social problems and health /
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
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Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
Publication Dates: | 2015. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science
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Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118992005 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781118991992 1118991990 9781118992005 1118992008 |
Index Number: | RA418 |
CLC: | R-05 |
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. |