%%%%% AAAAAAAAAA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @Book{AAS04, author = {Panel on Dietary Reference Intakes for Electrolytes and Water, Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes}, title = {Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate}, publisher ={National Academies Press}, year ={2004}, } @book{abramson99, Author={Abramson, J.J. and Abramson, Z.H.}, Title ={Survey Methods in Community Medicine: Epidemiological Research, Programme Evaluation, Clincal Trials}, publisher ={Churchill Livingstone}, year ={1999}, address ={London, UK}, summary = {Examines survey techniques}, } @article{ackere99, Author = {Van Ackere, Ann and Smith, Peter C.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {3}, Pages = {225 - 252}, Title = {Towards a macro model of National Health Service waiting lists.}, Volume = {15}, Year = {1999}, Summary = {Integrates econometric results into system dynamics methods to crate a dynamical model illustrating the path taken by the national system of elective surgery}, } @article{ahmad05, Author = {Ahmad, Sajjad and Billimek, John}, Journal = {Risk Analysis: An International Journal}, Number = {4}, Pages = {801 - 812}, Title = {Estimating the Health Impacts of Tobacco Harm Reduction Policies: A Simulation Modeling Approach.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2005}, Summary = {Develops a dynamic computer model to simulate age- and gender-specific changes in smoking behaviours that would result from policy changes to make cigarettes less harmful or less addictive.}, } @article{aita05, Author = {Aita, Virginia and McIlvain, Helen and Backer, Elisabeth and McVea, Kristine and Crabtree, Benjamin}, Journal = {Patient Education And Counseling}, Number = {3}, Pages = {296 - 304}, Title = {Patient-centered care and communication in primary care practice: what is involved?}, Volume = {58}, Year = {2005}, Summary = {A qualitative analysis examining physician-patient interactions and patient-centered care in family practices.}, } @Conference{akcali06, author = {E. Akcali}, title = {A network flow model for health care resource planning}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Using a network flow model for long-term bed capacity planning and medium-term care team capacity planning.}, } @Techreport{irmacs06, author = {Azadeh Alimadad and Peter Borwein and Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly and Ron Ferguson and Ellen Fowler and Yuri Gusev and Michael Hayes and Warren Hare and Michel Joffre and Snezana Mitrovic-Minic and A. R. Rutherford and Krisztina Vasarhelyi and Les Vertesi}, title = {How Many More Cases are Needed? {A} Report on Hip and Knee Surgery Waits in British Columbia}, year = {2006}, institution = {CSMG Technical Report, IRMACS, Simon Fraser University}, note = {Prepared for the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services}, summary = {Examines how surgeon hiring policy will effect waitlists of Hip and Knee surgery in British Columbia.}, } @inproceedings{april04, author = {Jay April and Marco Better and Fred Glover and James Kelly}, title = {NEW ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS FOR MARRYING SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, year = {2004}, pages = {80 - 86}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, summary = {A tutorial in the real-world applications that have been developed using Tabu Search, Scatter Search, Mixed Integer Programming, and Neural Networks, combined with simulation. }, } @article{albrecht98, Author = {Albrecht, G and Freeman, S and Higginbotham N}, Journal = {Culture Medicine and Psychiatry}, Number = {1}, Pages = {55 - 92}, Title = {Complexity and human health: The case for a transdisciplinary paradigm}, Volume = {22}, Year = {1998}, Summary = {Constructs a generic framework for health processes from diverse disciplines based on transdisciplinary thinking and complexity theory.}, } @Misc{andersen68, author = {Ronald M. Andersen}, title = {Behavioral Model of Families' Use of Health Services}, year = {1968}, note = {Research Series No.~25. Chicago, IL: Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago}, summary = {Develops the behavioural model.}, } @article{andersen95, author = {Andersen, Ronald M.}, journal = {Journal of Health and Social Behavior}, number = {1}, pages = {1--10}, publisher = {American Sociological Association}, title = {Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?}, volume = {36}, year = {1995}, summary = {A review of the development, uses, and continued relevance of The Behavioural Model of Health Services Use.}, } @article{andersson06, author={Andersson, T. and and V\'arbrand, P.}, title={Decision support tools for ambulance dispatch and relocation}, journal={Journal of the Operational Research Society}, volume={}, number={}, year={2006}, pages={1--7}, summary={describes some decision support tools for dynamic ambulance relocation and automatic ambulance dispatching.}, } @techreport{andren01, Author ={Andr‚n, Daniela and Palmer, Edward}, Title ={The Effect Of Sickness On Earnings}, Year = {2001}, Institution ={G”teborg University, Department of Economics}, Type = {Working Papers in Economics}, Note = {available at http://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/gunwpe/0045.html}, Number = {45}, summary = {Addresses whether sickness history affects annual earnings and hourly wages in Sweden.}, } @misc{archimedes06, key = {ARCHIMEDES}, author = {{ARCHIMEDES}}, note = {Archimedes, Inc., \url{http://www.archimedesmodel.com/archimedes.htm}}, year = {2006}, summary = {An overview of the Archimedes Model, a healthcare model that allows for the movement and manipulation of vast amounts of data in a way that simulates reality.}, } @article{arndt00, Author = {Arndt, Margarete and Bigelow, Barbara}, Journal = {Health Care Management Review}, Number = {1}, Pages = {35 - 38}, Title = {Commentary: The potential of chaos theory and complexity theory for health services management.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2000}, Summary = {Looks at the potential uses of complexity theory and chaos theory in the understanding of health care organizations.}, } @article{arrow63, author = {Arrow, Kenneth J.}, copyright = {Copyright 1963 American Economic Association}, journal = {The American Economic Review}, number = {5}, pages = {941--973}, publisher = {American Economic Association}, title = {Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care}, volume = {53}, year = {1963}, summary = {Looks at the way the operation of the medical care industry can differ from a norm.}, } @inproceedings{atrostic94, author = {B. K. Atrostic}, title = {A multiple imputation approach to microsimulation.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association}, year = {1994}, pages = {529 - 534}, summary = {Proposes the application of multiple imputation as an approach (rather than a specific technique or algorithm) when developing microsimulation models of health care financing.}, } @article {AD06, AUTHOR = {Audet, C. and Dennis, Jr., J. E.}, TITLE = {Mesh adaptive direct search algorithms for constrained optimization}, JOURNAL = {SIAM J. Optim.}, FJOURNAL = {SIAM Journal on Optimization}, VOLUME = {17}, YEAR = {2006}, NUMBER = {1}, PAGES = {188--217 (electronic)}, ISSN = {1052-6234}, MRCLASS = {90C30 (49J52 65K10 90C56)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2219150 (2007a:90080)}, MRREVIEWER = {Julien Ugon}, summary={details a pattern search method for constrained optimization problems.}, } @article{awosefo04, Author = {Awofeso, Niyi}, Journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, Number = {5}, Pages = {705 - 709}, Title = {What's New About the "New Public Health"?}, Volume = {94}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Looks at what is new about the current era of health promotion and it suitability in addressing ongoing and emerging public health concerns.}, } %%%%%% BBBBB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @book {back96, AUTHOR = {B{\"a}ck, Thomas}, TITLE = {Evolutionary algorithms in theory and practice}, NOTE = {Evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms}, PUBLISHER = {The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press}, ADDRESS = {New York}, YEAR = {1996}, PAGES = {xiv+314}, ISBN = {0-19-509971-0}, MRCLASS = {90-02 (68T05 90C15 90C27)}, MRNUMBER = {MR1379587 (97d:90001)}, MRREVIEWER = {Panos M. Pardalos}, } @article{bagust99, Author = {Bagust, A and Place, M and Posnett, J W}, Journal = {BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)}, Number = {7203}, Pages = {155 - 158}, Title = {Dynamics of bed use in accommodating emergency admissions: stochastic simulation model.}, Volume = {319}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Uses discrete-event stochastic simulation to model the relation between demand and available bed capacity in the hospital system.}, } @article{baker02, Author = {Baker, Rose D}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {275 - 281}, Title = {Sensitivity analysis for healthcare models fitted to data by statistical methods.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Describes a methodology for carrying out a sensitivity analysis in health care models. }, } @inproceedings{balci97, author = {Osman Balci}, title = {VERIFICATION, VALIDATION AND ACCREDITATION OF SIMULATION MODELS}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference}, year = {1997}, pages = {135 - 141}, editor = {S. Andrad¢ttir and K. J. Healy and D. H. Withers and B. L. Nelson}, summary = {Presents guidelines for the verification, validation, and accreditation of simulation models.}, } @inproceedings{balci04, author = {Osman Balci}, title = {QUALITY ASSESSMENT, VERIFICATION, AND VALIDATION OF MODELING AND SIMULATION APPLICATIONS}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, year = {2004}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, pages = {122 - 129}, summary = {Presents a quality model for assessing the quality of large-scale complex modeling and simulation applications.}, } @article{baltussen02, Author = {Baltussen, Rob M P M and Hutubessy, Raymond C W and Evans, David B and Murray, Christopher J M}, Journal = {International Journal Of Technology Assessment In Health Care}, Number = {1}, Pages = {112 - 119}, Title = {Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis. Probabilistic uncertainty analysis and stochastic league tables.}, Volume = {18}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Proposes a method of taking uncertainty into account in health care analyses involving probabilistic uncertainty analysis using Monte Carlo Simulations.}, } @Article{bandura04, author = {A. Bandura}, title = {Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means}, Journal = {Health Education and Behavior}, year = {2004}, volume = {31}, pages = {143-164}, summary = {Examines health promotion and disease prevention form the perspective of social cognitive theory.}, } @Article{Barabasi2004, author = {A.-L. Barab\`asi and Z. N. Oltvai}, title = {Network biology: Understanding the cell's functional organization}, journal = {Nature Reviews Genetics}, year = {2004}, volume = {5}, pages = {101-114}, summary = {Network biology may help to understand and catalogue the complex interactions of molecules within a living cell, and how these interactions determine the function of cell.}, } @Article{bar-yam06, author = {Yaneer Bar-Yam}, title = {Improving the Effectiveness of Health Care and Public Health: A Multiscale Complex Systems Analysis}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, year = {2006}, volume = {96}, pages = {459-466}, summary = {Multiscale complex systems analysis suggest there is a need for a separation of responsibility into medical care of individual patients and prevention/population health, as they require different organizational structures. }, } @article {baskett75, AUTHOR = {Baskett, Forest and Chandy, K. Mani and Muntz, Richard R. and Palacios, Fernando G.}, TITLE = {Open, closed, and mixed networks of queues with different classes of customers}, JOURNAL = {J. Assoc. Comput. Mach.}, FJOURNAL = {Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery}, VOLUME = {22}, YEAR = {1975}, PAGES = {248--260}, summary = {Investigates queue networks with various classes of customers.}, } @article{basu05, Author = {Basu, Kisalaya and Gupta, Anil}, Journal = {Cahiers De Sociologie Et De D‚mographie M‚dicales}, Number = {2-3}, Pages = {255 - 285}, Title = {A physician demand and supply forecast model for Nova Scotia}, Volume = {45}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Presents a physician forecasting model to project the demand for and the supply of physicians in Nova Scotia to the year 2020.}, } @article{batljan04, Author = {Batljan, Ilija and Lagergren, M†rten}, Journal = {Social Science & Medicine (1982)}, Number = {12}, Pages = {2459 - 2466}, Title = {Inpatient/outpatient health care costs and remaining years of life--effect of decreasing mortality on future acute health care demand.}, Volume = {59}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Introduces a method to estimate how demographic changes will affect future inpatient/outpatient health care demand}, } @Article{becker62, author = {Gary S. Becker}, title = {Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis}, journal = {The Journal of Political Economy}, year = {1962}, volume = {70}, pages = {9-49}, summary = {A paper that looks at activities that influence future real income by embedding resources in people, otherwise known as investing in human capital.}, } @Book{becker76, author = {Gary S. Becker}, title = {The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, year = {1976}, address = {Chicago}, summary = {The possibility of using an economic approach to provide a unified framework for understanding human behaviour.}, } @InCollection{becker67, author = {Gary Stanley Becker}, title = {Human capital and personal distribution of income: an analytical approach}, booktitle = {Woytinsky lecture no. 1}, publisher = {Ann Arbor: Institute of Public Administration}, year = {1967}, summary = {XXX}, } @Article{becker88, author = {Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy}, title = {A Theory of Rational Addiction}, journal = {The Journal of Political Economy}, year = {1988}, volume = {96}, pages = {675-700}, summary = {Developing a theory of rational addiction and using a rational framework to provide insights into addictive behaviour.}, } @Misc{becker92, author = {Gary S. Becker}, title = {The Economic way of looking at life}, note = {Nobel Lecture, December 9, 1992}, year = {1992}, summary = {Using economic approaches to analyze social issues beyond those normally considered by economists.}, } @Book{becker93, author = {Gary S. Becker}, title = {Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, year = {1993}, address = {Chicago}, summary = {A study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to businesses investing in equipment. }, } @Misc{becker04, author = {Gary S. Becker and Bernard Grabot and Johannes Krauth and Jonas Laring and Giovanni Mummolo and Gert Zlch}, title = {Human-centred simulation: Practitioners guide for evaluation}, year = {2004}, summary = {Proposes a guideline for the selection of a simulation tool by taking particular human-centred aspects into account.}, } @article{Behrens99, Author = {Behrens, Doris A. and Caulkins, Jonathan P. and Tragler, Gernot and Haunschmied, Josef L. and Feichtinger, Gustav}, Journal = {Mathematical Biosciences}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1--20}, Title = {A dynamic model of drug initiation: implications for treatment and drug control}, Volume = {159}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Expands a previously introduced difference equation model of cocaine us by making initiation an endogenous function of prevalence. }, } @article{Bell98, Author = {Bell, C M and Crystal, M and Detsky, A S and Redelmeier, D A}, Journal = {JAMA: The Journal Of The American Medical Association}, Number = {13}, Pages = {1015 - 1017}, Title = {Shopping around for hospital services: a comparison of the United States and Canada.}, Volume = {279}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Compares the differences in prices and wait-times of 7 health services between US and Canadian hospitals.}, } @article{Bellman70, Author = {Bellman, R. E. and Zadeh, L. A.}, Journal = {Management Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {B-141 - B-164}, Title = {DECISION-MAKING IN A FUZZY ENVIRONMENT.}, Volume = {17}, Year = {1970}, summary = {Investigates decision making in a fuzzy environment and the need for differentiation between randomness and fuzziness in decision processes.}, } @Conference{belson06, author = {D. Belson}, title = {A methodology for allocating operating room capacity}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3--5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {The use of a finite-horizon integer programming model to determine a weekly operating room allocation template to minimize inpatient costs.}, } @Article{benichou90, author = {Jacques Benichou and Mitchell H. Gail}, title = {Variance Calculations and Confidence Intervals for Estimates of the Attributable Risk Based on Logistic Models}, journal = {Biometrics}, volume = {46}, year = {1990}, pages = {991-1003}, summary = {Investigates the usefulness of variance calculations in selecting a logistic model for attributable risk.}, } @Article{benichou01, author = {Jacques Benichou}, title = {A review of adjusted estimators of attributable risk}, journal = {Statistical Methods in Medical Research}, volume = {10}, year = {2001}, pages = {195-216}, summary = {A review of adjusted methods for estimating attributable risk (a measure for assessing the consequences of an association between an exposure and a disease at the population level). }, } @Article{ben-porath67, author = {Yoram Ben-Porath}, title = {The production of human capital and the life cycle of earnings}, journal = {The Journal of Political Economy}, year = 1967, volume = 75, pages = {352-367}, summary = {One of the seminal papers on the human capital model looking at how the production function affects the optimal path of investment.}, } @book{Ber06, AUTHOR = {Bergheim, S.}, TITLE = {Live long and prosper! {H}ealth and longevity as growth drivers}, PUBLISHER = {Deutsche Bank Research}, ADDRESS = {Frankfurt, Germany}, MONTH = {March}, YEAR = {2006}, PAGES = {15}, } @article{Berkman95, Author = {Berkman, L F}, Journal = {Psychosomatic Medicine}, Number = {3}, Pages = {245 - 254}, Title = {The role of social relations in health promotion.}, Volume = {57}, Year = {1995}, summary = {Examines the need to incorporate ways to promote social support in health interventions.}, } @article{Berrada96, Author = {Berrada, Ilham and Ferland, Jacques A. and Michelon, Philippe}, Journal = {Socio-Economic Planning Sciences}, Number = {3}, Pages = {183--193}, Title = {A multi-objective approach to nurse scheduling with both hard and soft constraints}, Volume = {30}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Examines three different solution techniques in a multi-objective approach to modeling the nurse scheduling problem.}, } @Article{berthelot00, author = {Jean-Marie Berthelot and B. Phyllis Will and William K. Evans and Douglas Coyle and Craig C. Earle and Louise Bordeleau}, title = {Decision framework for chemotherapeutic interventions for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer}, journal = {Journal of the National Cancer Institute}, year = {2000}, volume = {92}, pages = {1321-1329}, summary = {The use of different cost-effectiveness analyses to make choices between different chemotherapy regimens. }, } @book{biemer03, Author={Biemer, P. P. and Lyberg, L. E.}, Title ={Introduction to Survey Quality}, publisher ={John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,}, year ={2003}, address ={New Jersey, USA}, summary = {Examines survey techniques and sampling error}, } @Article{billard04, author = {L. Billard}, title = {Markov models and social analysis}, journal = {International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences}, year = {2004}, pages = {9242-9250}, summary = {Using Markov models to analyze various social science processes, such as bed occupancy rates, brand loyalty, occupational mobility, voter patterns and malaria. }, } @article{Bingenheimer04, Author = {Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B and Raudenbush, Stephen W}, Journal = {Annual Review Of Public Health}, Pages = {53 - 77}, Title = {Statistical and substantive inferences in public health: issues in the application of multilevel models.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Comments on the three most common applications multilevel statistical models in healthcare and explores their applications, validity and strengths.}, } @article{Birch93, Author = {Birch, S and Eyles, J and Newbold, K B}, ISSN = {1057-9230 (Print)}, Journal = {Health Economics}, Number = {2}, Pages = {87 - 101}, Title = {Equitable access to health care: methodological extensions to the analysis of physician utilization in Canada.}, Volume = {2}, Year = {1993}, summary = {Analyzes the distribution of family physicians use in Canada to explore whether the goal of reasonable access to care has been achieved.}, } @Article{birch98, author = {Stephen Birch and Greg Stoddart and Fran\cois B\'eland}, title = {Modelling the Community as a Determinant of Health}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Public Health}, volume = {89}, year = {1998}, pages = {402-405}, summary = {Demonstrates how separate statistical model for variations in health between communities and between individuals can be combined to provide a multi-level model for the determinants of health of populations.}, } @article{Blake96, Author = {Blake, John T. and Carter, Michael W.}, Journal = {INFOR}, Number = {4}, Pages = {263 - 273}, Title = {AN ANALYSIS OF EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIME ISSUES VIA COMPUTER SIMULATION.}, Volume = {34}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Uses a discrete event simulation model of an emergency room to determine issues contributing to wait times in the delivery of primary care in emergency rooms.}, } @article{Bodenheimer99, Author = {Bodenheimer, T and Lo, B and Casalino, L}, Journal = {JAMA: The Journal Of The American Medical Association}, Number = {21}, Pages = {2045 - 2049}, Title = {Primary care physicians should be coordinators, not gatekeepers.}, Volume = {281}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Examines the need for a refined primary care model where the primary care physician acts as a coordinator of care, rather than a gatekeeper of care.}, } @Article{bolin01, author = {Kristian Bolin and Lena Jacobson and Bj\"orn Lindgren}, title = {The family as the health producer --- when spouses are {N}ash-bargainers}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, volume = {20}, year = {2001}, pages = {349-362}, summary = {An analysis of the impact of health changes on family policies related to the dissolution of the family. }, } @Article{bolin02, author = {Kristian Bolin and Lena Jacobson and Bj\"orn Lindgren}, title = {The family as the health producer --- when spouses act strategically}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, volume = {21}, year = {2002}, pages = {475-495}, summary = {A model looking at how spouses interact strategically both in the production of their own health and in the production of the health of other family members.}, } @book {bonnans06, AUTHOR = {Bonnans, J. Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Gilbert, J. Charles and Lemar{\'e}chal, Claude and Sagastiz{\'a}bal, Claudia A.}, TITLE = {Numerical optimization}, SERIES = {Universitext}, EDITION = {Second}, NOTE = {Theoretical and practical aspects}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin}, YEAR = {2006}, PAGES = {xiv+490}, ISBN = {3-540-35445-X}, MRCLASS = {90-01 (65Kxx 90C30)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2265882 (2007e:90001)}, } @article{Bornholdt02, Author = {Bornholdt, Stefan and Wagner, Friedrich}, Journal = {Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications}, Number = {1-4}, Pages = {453--468}, Title = {Stability of money: phase transitions in an Ising economy}, Volume = {316}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Models the value of money as a dynamical variable resulting from trading between agents.}, } @Book{boulding66, author = {K. Boulding}, title = {Economic Analysis}, year = {1966}, publisher = {Harper and Row}, address = {New York}, summary = {An introduction and overview of economic analysis.}, } @book {boyd04, AUTHOR = {Boyd, Stephen and Vandenberghe, Lieven}, TITLE = {Convex optimization}, PUBLISHER = {Cambridge University Press}, ADDRESS = {Cambridge}, YEAR = {2004}, PAGES = {xiv+716}, ISBN = {0-521-83378-7}, MRCLASS = {90-01 (90C05 90C25 90C46 90C51)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2061575 (2005d:90002)}, MRREVIEWER = {Dan Butnariu}, NOTE ={http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/}, } @InProceedings{brailsford03, author = {S. C. Brailsford and L. Churilov and S-K Liew}, title = {Treating ailing emergency departments with simulation: an integrated perspective?}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Western Multiconference on Health Sciences Simulation, Florida}, year = {2003}, editor = {J. Anderson}, summary = {A comparative analysis of using Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics approaches, or a combination of both, for emergency department planning and management. }, } @article{Brailsford04, Author = {Brailsford, S. C. and Lattimer, V. A. and Tarnaras, P. and Turnbull, J. C.}, Journal = {Journal of the Operational Research Society}, Number = {1}, Pages = {34 - 42}, Title = {Emergency and on-demand health care: modelling a large complex system.}, Volume = {55}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Uses system dynamics to model emergency and on-demand health care in Nottingham, England.}, } @incollection{brand04, author = {M. L. Brandeau}, editor = {M. L. Brandeau and F. Sainfort and W. P. Pierskalla}, booktitle = {Operations research and health care: A handbook of methods and applications}, title = {Allocating resources to control infectious diseases}, publisher = {Kluwer}, year = {2004}, series = {International series in operations research and management science}, address = {Boston}, pages = {443--464}, summary = {A review of existing models that have been used to study the problems of resource allocation among competing epidemic control programs and populations.}, } @article{Braveman06, Author = {Braveman, Paula}, Journal = {Annual Review Of Public Health}, Pages = {167 - 194}, Title = {Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement.}, Volume = {27}, Year = {2006}, summary = {Clarifies the concepts of health disparities, health inequalities and health equity.}, } @Article{breslow78, author = {L. Breslow}, title = {Prospects for improving health through reducing risk factors}, journal = {Preventive Medicine}, volume = {7}, year = {1978}, pages = {449-458}, summary = {Looking at risk factor intervention at an individual "medical model" level and at a broader "community model" level. }, } @Article{breslow80, author = {L. Breslow and J. E. Enstrom}, title = {Persistence of health habits and their relationship to mortality}, journal = {Preventive Medicine}, volume = {9}, year = {1980}, pages = {469-483}, summary = {Explores the relationship between seven personal health habits and the subsequent mortality over a period of nine years. }, } @Article{bronnum-hansen99, author = {H. Bronnum-Hansen}, title = {How good is the {P}revent model for estimating the health benefits of prevention?}, journal = {J. Epidemiol. Community Health}, volume = {53}, year = {1999}, pages = {300-305}, summary = {Tests the Prevent model by applying it to a synthetic cohort in which the development is unaffected by concealed factors.}, } @article{brotcorne03, author={Brotcorne, L. and Laporte, G. and Semet, F.}, TITLE={Ambulance location and relocation models}, JOURNAL={European Journal of Operational Research}, VOLUME={147}, NUMBER={3}, YEAR={2003}, PAGES={451--463}, summary={traces the evolution of ambulance location and relocation models proposed over the past 30 years.}, } @techreport{Burke06, Author = {Burke, Mary and Heiland, Frank}, Title = {Social dynamics of obesity}, Year = {2006}, type = {Working Paper Series}, institution={Federal Reserve Bank of Boston}, summary = {Models obesity in the context of falling food prices using an analytical choice model.}, } @article{Burns85, Author = {Burns, R. N. and Carter, M. W.}, Journal = {Management Science}, Number = {5}, Pages = {599 - 607}, Title = {WORK FORCE SIZE AND SINGLE SHIFT SCHEDULES WITH VARIABLE DEMANDS.}, Volume = {31}, Year = {1985}, summary = {Develops a model to determine the lower bound on the number of employees needed when companies improve shift scheduling.}, } @Article{burstrom01, author = {B. Burstr\"om and P. Fredlund}, title = {Self rated health: Is it as good a predictor of subsequent mortality in lower as well as in higher social classes?}, journal = {J. Epidemiol. Community Health}, year = {2001}, volume = {55}, pages = {836-840}, summary = {An analysis of the predictive power of self-rated health for mortality in different socio-economic groups.}, } @article{Bushe04, author = {Bushe, Frank}, Journal = {Medical Post}, Number = {1}, Pages = {49}, Title = {Modelling health care}, Volume = {40}, year = {2004}, summary = {An article about a Toronto engineering professor who is working on computer simulations to improve how hospitals operate.}, } @book{byrne09, author = "Barbara M Byrne", title = "Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS", edition = "Second", publisher = "CRC Press", year = 2009, } %%%%% CCCCCCCC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @inproceedings{cahill99, author = {William Cahill and Marta Render}, title = {DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODELING OF ICU BED AVAILABILITY}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference}, year = {1999}, editor = {P. A. Farrington and H. B. Nembhard and D. T. Sturrock and G. W. Evans}, pages = {1573 - 1576}, summary = {Using dynamic simulation software to model ICU bed availability and assess the outcomes of planned construction changes.}, } @Book{cameron98, author = {A. C. Cameron and P. K. Trivedi}, title = {Regression analysis of count data}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, year = {1998}, address = {Cambridge, UK}, summary = {An analysis of methods and models that are used to explain the frequency of events, such as visits to a doctor.}, } @Article{cameron88, author = {A. C. Cameron and P. K. Trivedi and F. Milne and J. Piggott}, title = {A microeconometric model of the demand for health care and health insurance in {Australia}}, journal = {The Review of Economic Studies}, year = {1988}, volume = {55}, pages = {85-106}, summary = {Developing a model for demand for health insurance and health care under uncertain conditions.}, } @article{caron99, author = {{Caron, Gaetan} and {Hansen, Pierri} and {Jaumard, Brigitte}}, journal = {Operations Research}, number = {3}, pages = {449--453}, publisher = {INFORMS}, title = {The Assignment Problem with Seniority and Job Priority Constraints}, volume = {47}, year = {1999}, summary = {Investigates the problem of job assignment when considering seniority and job priority constraints and suggests an optimal solution obtained by solving a classical assignment problem with adequately modified coefficients. }, } @InProceedings{carson04, author = {John S. Carson}, title = {Introduction to modeling and simulation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, pages = {9-16}, year = {2004}, editor = {R. G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, summary = {An introduction and discussion of simulation and modeling and the main concepts of the underlying simulation.}, } @article{carter01, Author = {Carter, M W and Lapierre, S D}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {347 - 360}, Title = {Scheduling emergency room physicians.}, Volume = {4}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Presents characteristics of the scheduling problem and techniques currently used in six emergency rooms as well as methods for modifying the existing scheduling rules to produce better schedules. }, } @Article{carter05, author = {Michael Carter}, title = {A {C}anadian Network in Modeling and Simulation in Healthcare}, journal = {Clinical and Investigative Medicine}, year = {2005}, volume = {28}, number = {6}, pages = {318-319}, summary = {Looks at bringing researchers and practitioners from across Canada together to form a network to coordinate the activities of those working in the area of healthcare modeling and simulation.}, } @article{Cassa05, Author = {Cassa, Christopher and Iancu, Karin and Olson, Karen and Mandl, Kenneth}, Journal = {BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making}, Number = {1}, Pages = {22}, Title = {A software tool for creating simulated outbreaks to benchmark surveillance systems}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Describes a software tool, AEGIS Cluster Creation Tool, that enables the creation of simulated clusters for use in the early detection of disease outbreaks.}, } @article{Caulkins01, author = {Jonathan P. Caulkins}, title = {When Parametric Sensitivity Analysis Is Not Enough}, journal = {INFORMS Transactions on Education}, number = {3}, volume = {1}, year = {2001}, pages = {88-101}, summary = {Compares structural and parametric sensitivity analysis.}, } @article{Cavana99, Author = {Cavana, Robert Y. and Davies, Philip K. and Robson, Rachel M. and Wilson, Kenneth J.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {3}, Pages = {331 - 340}, Title = {Drivers of quality in health services: different worldviews of clinicians and policy managers revealed.}, Volume = {15}, Year = {1999}, summary = {An overview of a project that is using a qualitative system dynamics approach to identify factors driving the health and disability sector in New Zealand.}, } @TECHREPORT{cdc09, author = "Centre for Disease Control and Prevention", title = "{{HIV/AIDS} Surveillance Report, 2007} ", volume = "19", institution = "Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention", address = "Atlanta, USA", year = 2009, } @Conference{chaov06, author = {W. A. Chaovalitwongse}, title = {Optimization-based cluster analysis of epileptic brains}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {The use of an optimization-based cluster analysis of electroencephalogram data to extract characteristics of the brain dynamical connectivity preceding epileptic seizures. }, } @Techreport{Cheng98, author = {E. Cheng and J. L. Rich}, title = {A Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem}, institution = {TR98-04, Department of CAAM, Rice University}, year = {1998}, summary = {A paper looking at the problem of routing and scheduling nurses in the home health care system.}, } @techreport{chern01, author = {D. Chernichovsky and A. Bolotin and D. Leeuw}, title = {A fuzzy logic approach toward solving the analytic maze of health system financing}, institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research}, year = {2001}, address = {Camdridge, MA}, pages = {1--41}, summary = {The use of ``Fuzzy logic'' to model human reasoning provides a powerful tool for the systematic analysis of the health system finance and for guiding policy making.}, } @Article{clark02, author = {Andrew Clark and Fabrice Etil\'e}, title = {Do health changes affect smoking? Evidence from British panel data}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, year = {2002}, volume = {21}, pages = {533-562}, summary = {Examines the link between health developments while smoking and future cigarette consumption.}, } @Unpublished{clarke06, author = {Harry Clarke and Svetlana Danilkina}, title = {Talking Rationally About Rational Addiction}, note = {preprint, Dept.~of Economics, La Trobe University}, year = {2006}, summary = {A review of the rational addiction model and its various assumptions.}, } @Article{cochran00, author = {Gregory M. Cochran and Paul W. Ewald and Kyle D. Cochran}, title = {Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective}, journal = {Perspectives in Biology and Medicine}, volume = {43}, year = {2000}, pages = {406-448}, summary = {An analysis of the present conceptions of disease etiology from a historical perspective and within the framework provided by evolutionary biology. }, } @article{cochran06, author = {Cochran, Jeffery K and Bharti, Aseem}, title = {A multi-stage stochastic methodology for whole hospital bed planning under peak loading}, journal = {International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering}, volume = {1}, year = {2006}, pages = {8-36}, summary = {Proposes a multi-stage stochastic method for use in balancing inpatient bed unit utilizations in hospitals to minimize bed blocking.}, } @InCollection{cohen79, author = {J. E. Cohen and B. Singer}, title = {Malaria in {Nigeria}: Contrained Continuous-time {Markov} models for discrete-time longitudinal data on human mixed-species infections}, booktitle = {Some Mathematical Questions in Biology}, pages = {69-133}, publisher = {Providence: American Mathematical Society}, year = {1979}, summary = {XXX}, } @article{cole05, author = {Cole, Brian L and Shimkhada, Riti and Morgenstern, Hal and Kominski, Gerald and Fielding, Jonathan E and Wu, Sheng}, title = {{Projected health impact of the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance}}, journal = {J Epidemiol Community Health}, volume = {59}, number = {8}, pages = {645-650}, year = {2005}, summary = {Constructs a model to estimate and compare potential reductions in mortality attributable to the increase in wage and changes in health insurance status among workers covered by the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance.}, } @article{colle78, Author = {Colle, A D and Grossman, M}, Journal = {The Journal Of Human Resources}, Pages = {115 - 158}, Title = {Determinants of pediatric care utilization.}, Volume = {13 Suppl}, Year = {1978}, summary = {Employs multivariate techniques to examine pediatric care utilization.}, } @article{collings76, author = {{Collings, T.} and {Stoneman, C.}}, journal = {Operations Research}, number = {4}, pages = {760--773}, publisher = {INFORMS}, title = {The $M/M/\infty $ Queue with Varying Arrival and Departure Rates}, volume = {24}, year = {1976}, summary = {Derives the queue size distribution for infinite server queues with Poisson arrivals and exponential service times when both distributions are allowed to vary with time.}, } @article{contoyannis01, Author = {Contoyannis, Paul and Rice, Nigel}, Journal = {Empirical Economics}, Number = {4}, Pages = {599 - 622}, Title = {The Impact of Health on Wages: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey}, Volume = {26}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Employs single equation fixed effects and random effects instrumental variable estimators to estimate the effect of general and psychological health on hourly wages.}, } @article{contoyannis04, Author = {Contoyannis, Paul and Jones, Andrew M. and Rice, Nigel}, Journal = {Journal of Applied Econometrics}, Number = {4}, Pages = {473 - 503}, Title = {The Dynamics of Health in the British Household Panel Survey}, Volume = {19}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Considers the dynamics of a categorical indicator of self-assessed health.}, } @article {CST97, AUTHOR = {Conn, A. R. and Scheinberg, K. and Toint, Ph. L.}, TITLE = {Recent progress in unconstrained nonlinear optimization without derivatives}, NOTE = {Lectures on mathematical programming (ismp97) (Lausanne, 1997)}, JOURNAL = {Math. Programming}, FJOURNAL = {Mathematical Programming}, VOLUME = {79}, YEAR = {1997}, NUMBER = {1-3, Ser. B}, PAGES = {397--414}, ISSN = {0025-5610}, CODEN = {MHPGA4}, MRCLASS = {90C30}, MRNUMBER = {MR1464776 (98h:90074)}, MRREVIEWER = {K. Schittkowski}, summary={a survey providing the general framework of pattern search methods.}, } @article{cook05, Author = {Cook, R and Rasmussen, J}, Journal = {Quality \& Safety In Health Care}, Number = {2}, Pages = {130 - 134}, Title = {"Going solid": a model of system dynamics and consequences for patient safety.}, Volume = {14}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Examines Rasmussen's dynamic model of risk and safety and its potential use in formulating a model of patient safety dynamics in healthcare.}, } @article{cooper01, Author = {Cooper, Richard A.}, Journal = {Annual Review of Medicine}, Number = {1}, Pages = {51}, Title = {HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The Impact of Nonphysician Clinicians.}, Volume = {52}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Looks at the rise of nonphysician clinics in the healthcare system and the opportunities and challenges these clinics present to physicians.}, } @article{cooper04, Author = {Cooper, Ben and Lipsitch, Marc}, Journal = {Biostatistics (Oxford, England)}, Number = {2}, Pages = {223 - 237}, Title = {The analysis of hospital infection data using hidden Markov models.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Proposes a new method for analyzing surveillance data for communicable pathogens using a "structured" hidden Markov model.}, } @article{correa05, Author = {Correa, Hector and Parker, Barnett R.}, Journal = {Socio-Economic Planning Sciences}, Number = {4}, Pages = {307--333}, Title = {An application of organizational input-output analysis to hospital management}, Volume = {39}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Uses an organizational input-output model to forecast the personnel needed in various components of an acute-care hospital.}, } @article{Costa96, Author = {Costa, Giovanni}, Journal = {Applied Ergonomics}, Keywords = {shiftwork; nightwork; occupational medicine; health impairment}, Number = {1}, Pages = {9--16}, Title = {The impact of shift and night work on health}, Volume = {27}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Investigates the negative impact of shift and night work on the health of workers.}, } @article{Costa03, Author = {Costa, A. X. and Ridley, S. A. and Shahani, A. K. and Harper, P. R. and De Senna, V. and Nielsen, M. S.}, Journal = {Anaesthesia}, Number = {4}, Pages = {320 - 327}, Title = {Mathematical modelling and simulation for planning critical care capacity.}, Volume = {58}, Year = {2003}, summary = {Describes a mathematical modeling approach to evaluate the number of critical care beds needed to meet a target occupancy.}, } @article{Cote00, Author = {Murray J. C\hat{o}t\'e}, Journal = {Decision Line}, Number = {2}, Volume = {31}, Pages = {8-10}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Looks at the need for understanding patient flow to improve the efficiency of the delivery of health care services.}, } @Article{craib03, author = {Kevin J. P. Craib and Patricia M. Spittal and Evan Wood and Nancy Laliberte and Robert S. Hogg and Kathy Li and Katherine Heath and Mark W. Tyndall and Michael V. O'Shaughnessy and Martin T. Schechter}, title = {Risk factors for elevated {HIV} incidence among {Aboriginal} injection drug users in {Vancouver}}, journal = {Canadian Medical Association Journal}, year = {2003}, volume = {168}, number = {1}, pages = {19-24}, summary = {A study of the risk factors for contracting HIV among Aboriginal drug users in Vancouver. }, } @Book{craik43, author = {Kenneth Craik}, title = {The Nature of Explanation}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, year = {1943}, address = {Cambridge}, summary = {A book that lays the foundation for the concept of mental models where the mind forms models of reality and uses them to predict similar future events}, } @book{crain98, editor = {T. G. Crainic and G. Laporte}, title = {Fleet management and logistics}, publisher = {Kluwer}, year = {1998}, address = {Boston}, summary = {Looking at some of the most recent operations research advances in the field of transportation and logistics, including research areas, methods, models and software.}, } @techreport{creel02, author ={Michael Creel}, title ={Hausman Tests for Inefficient Estimators: Application to Demand for Health Care Service (revised)}, year = {2002}, institution ={Unitat de Fonaments de l'An…lisi Econ•mica (UAB) and Institut d'An…lisi Econ•mica (CSIC)}, type ={UFAE and IAE Working Papers}, number ={509.02}, summary = {Illustrates simulation results of a Hausmen test when neither estimator is efficient for the utilization of health care services.}, } @article{Cromwell86, Author = {Cromwell, Jerry and Mitchell, Janet B.}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {4}, Pages = {293 - 313}, Title = {Physician-Induced Demand for Surgery}, Volume = {5}, Year = {1986}, summary = {A simultaneous equation model is used to estimate physician demand and equilibrium fees for surgery.}, } @Article{crossley02, author = {Thomas F. Crossley and Steven Kennedy}, title = {The reliability of self-assessed health status}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, year = {2002}, volume = {21}, pages = {643-658}, summary = {A paper looking at the reliability of self-reported health status as a measure of health.}, } @article{cullis85, Author = {Cullis, John G. and Jones, Philip R.}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {2}, Pages = {119 - 135}, Title = {National Health Service Waiting Lists: A Discussion of Competing Explanations and a Policy Proposal}, Volume = {4}, Year = {1985}, summary = {A discussion of the main arguments advanced to explain the waiting lists in Britain's National Health Service and presents a framework that focuses on "demand" and "supplier" induced demand considerations.}, } %%%%%% DDDDDDD %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @ Techreport{dabbaghian-2008, Author={Dabbaghian, V. and Vasarhelyi, K. and Richardson, N. and Borwein, P. and Rutherford, A. R.}, Title={The Impact of Social Interactions on the Spread of {HIV} Infection among Injection Drug Users: {A} {C}ellular {A}utomaton Model}, Institution={CSMG Technical Report, IRMACS, Simon Fraser University}, YEAR={2008}, PAGES={1--18}, summary={A cellular automata model looking at HIV spread in the downtown eastside via injection drug use.}, } @Article{danaei05, author = {G. Danaei and S. V. Hoorn and A. D. Lopez and C. J. L. Murray and M. Ezzati and {the Comparative Risk Assessment collaborating group (Cancers)}}, title = {Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors}, journal = {Lancet}, year = {2005}, volume = {366}, pages ={1784--1793} } @article{dangerfield99, author = {Dangerfield, B. C.}, journal = {The Journal of the Operational Research Society}, number = {4}, pages = {345--353}, publisher = {Operational Research Society}, title = {System Dynamics Applications to European Health Care Issues}, volume = {50}, year = {1999}, summary = {A review of some system dynamics models used to address European health care issues and possible future roles of these models.}, } @article{dangerfield-roberts99, Author = {Dangerfield, B. and Roberts, C.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {3}, Pages = {273 - 291}, Title = {Optimisation as a statistical estimation tool: an example in estimating the AIDS treatment-free incubation period distribution.}, Volume = {15}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Employs an optimization approach using system dynamics software to portray scenarios and corresponding future trends in AIDS cases.}, } @inproceedings{dangerfield-roberts96, Author = {Dangerfield, B. and Roberts, C.}, BOOKTITLE = {O.R. Work in HIV/AIDS}, EDITION = {2}, Pages = {7--13}, Title = {Fitting a model of the spread of AIDS to data from five European countries}, ADDRESS = {Birmingham}, Year = {1994}, summary = {prework for dangerfield-roberts99}, } @article{dangerfield, Author = {Dangerfield, B. and Roberts, C.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {3}, Pages = {197 - 199}, Title = {Foreword to the special issue on health and health care dynamics.}, Volume = {15}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Presents a foreword to a collection of papers that represent some of the ongoing health-related work utilizing system dynamics.}, } @article{danielsson02, Author = {Danielsson, Jon}, Journal = {Journal of Banking and Finance}, Number = {7}, Pages = {1273 - 1296}, Title = {The Emperor Has No Clothes: Limits to Risk Modelling}, Volume = {26}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Looks at the properties, particularly limits, of risk measures, from both internal and external points of view.}, } @article{dantzig54, author = {Dantzig, George B.}, journal = {Journal of the Operations Research Society of America}, number = {3}, pages = {339--341}, publisher = {INFORMS}, title = {A Comment on Edie's "Traffic Delays at Toll Booths"}, volume = {2}, year = {1954}, summary = {Elaborates upon a suggestion of using linear programming methods as an alternative procedure in the scheduling section of Leslie C. Edie's paper on "Traffic Delays at Toll Booths".}, } @article{Dardanoni87, Author = {Dardanoni, Valentino and Wagstaff, Adam}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {4}, Pages = {283 - 290}, Title = {Uncertainty, Inequalities in Health and the Demand for Health}, Volume = {6}, Year = {1987}, summary = {Suggests that Grossman's model of the demand for health may be useful in analyzing whether health inequalities arise from inequalities of wealth, rather than inequalities in access to care.}, } @article{dardanoni90, Author = {Dardanoni, Valentino and Wagstaff, Adam}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {1}, Pages = {23 - 38}, Title = {Uncertainty and the Demand for Medical Care}, Volume = {9}, Year = {1990}, summary = {Analyses the effects of uncertainty on health care demand using a simplified version of Grossman's human capital model of he demand for health.}, } @article{daskin83, author={Daskin, M. S.}, title={A maximum expected coverage location model: Formulation, properties and heuristic solution}, journal={Transportation Science}, volume={17}, year={1983}, pages={48--70}, summary={one of the first models for examining optimal ambulance deployment.}, } @incollection{daski04, author = {M. S. Daskin and L. K. Dean}, editor = {M. L. Brandeau, F. Sainfort and W. P. Pierskalla}, booktitle = {Operations research and health care: A handbook of methods and applications}, title = {Location of health care facilities}, publisher = {Kluwer}, year = {2004}, series = {International series in operations research and management science}, address = {Boston}, pages = {43-76}, summary = {A review of the location set covering model, maximal covering model and P-median model that form the core of the location planning in healthcare.}, } @article{davidsson02, author = {Paul Davidsson}, title = {Agent Based Social Simulation: A Computer Science View}, journal = {Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation}, year = {2002}, volume = {5}, number = {1}, summary = {A description of the area and role of Agent Based Social Simulation.}, } @Article{deb00, author = {Partha Deb and Ann M. Holmes}, title = {Estimates of use and costs of behavioural health care: a comparison of standard and finite mixture models}, journal = {Econometrics and Health Economics}, year = {2000}, volume = {9}, pages = {475-489}, summary = {This paper looks at estimating the utilization of and the expenditures on behavioral health care using the finite fixture model, which is able to distinguish between distinct classes of users.}, } @Article{deb02, author = {Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi}, title = {The structure of demand for health care: latent class versus two-part models}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, year = {2002}, volume = {21}, pages = {601-625}, summary = {A comparison of the two-part model that distinguishes between users and non-users of health care, versus a latent class model that separates users into frequent and non frequent users.}, } @Article{deb97, author = {Partha Deb and Pravin K. Trivedi}, title = {Demand for medical care by the elderly: a finite mixture approach}, journal = {Journal of Applied Econometrics}, year = {1997}, volume = {12}, pages = {313-336}, summary = {Using a finite mixture negative binomial count model to look at six measures of medical care demand by the elderly. }, } @book{degroot01, author = {Morris H. DeGroot and Mark J. Schervish}, title = {Probability and Statistics}, year = {2001}, publisher = {Addison Wesley}, edition = {Third Edition}, summary = {XXX}, } @Conference{denton06, author = {B. Denton}, title = {Optimization of surgery sequencing and scheduling decisions}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {A review of the stochastic programming model for setting surgery start times and optimizing surgery scheduling.}, } @misc{diabetes-phd, note = {Available at \url{http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesphd/default.jsp}}, key = {Diabetes {PHD}}, title = {Diabetes: Personal Health Decisions}, author = {American Diabetes Association}, } @Article{diamond86, author = {G. A. Diamond and A. Rozanski and M. Steuer}, title = {Playing doctor: application of game theory to medical decision-making}, journal = {Journal of Chronic Diseases}, year = {1986}, volume = {39}, pages = {669-677}, summary = {Applying the game theory to clinical decision-making (in this case, whether a patient with chronic liver failure should undergo a liver biopsy before being treated).}, } @Book{diamond97, author = {Jared Diamond}, title = {Guns, Germs and, Steel: The Fate of Human Societies}, publisher = {W.~W.~Norton}, address = {New York}, year = {1997}, summary = {Presents an explanation of why some civilizations in human history advanced and others did not.}, } @article{Diehr99, Author = {Diehr, P and Yanez, D and Ash, A and Hornbrook, M and Lin, D Y}, Journal = {Annual Review Of Public Health}, Pages = {125 - 144}, Title = {Methods for analyzing health care utilization and costs.}, Volume = {20}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Discusses the characteristics of utilization data including sources, statistical properties, common analytical methods, and new statistical methods.}, } @Article{diez-roux00, author = {Ana V. Diez-Roux}, title = {Multilevel Analysis in Public Health Research}, journal = {Annu. Rev. Public Health}, year = {2000}, volume = {21}, pages = {171-192}, summary = {Reviews the rationale for using multilevel analysis appraoches in public health research.}, } @Book{doorslaer87, author = {Eddy K. A. Van Doorslaer}, title = {Health, Knowledge and the Demand for Medical Care: an econometric analysis}, publisher = {Van Gorcum}, address = {Assen/Maastricht}, year ={1987}, summary = {XXX}, } @article {dorigo05, AUTHOR = {Dorigo, Marco and Blum, Christian}, TITLE = {Ant colony optimization theory: a survey}, JOURNAL = {Theoret. Comput. Sci.}, FJOURNAL = {Theoretical Computer Science}, VOLUME = {344}, YEAR = {2005}, NUMBER = {2-3}, PAGES = {243--278}, ISSN = {0304-3975}, CODEN = {TCSDI}, MRCLASS = {90C59 (68T05 90C57)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2178855 (2006e:90181)}, summary={Survey of ant colony optimization methods.}, } @Article{dowd04, author = {Steven B. Dowd}, title = {Applied Game Theory for the Hospital Manager: Three Case Studies}, journal = {The Health Care Manager}, year = {2004}, volume = {23}, pages = {156-161}, summary = {A review of some of the more complex aspects of the game theory as it applies to predicting human interactions and potential outcomes of decisions, and what this means for the health care system.}, } @Article{drescher91, author = {Karsten Drescher and Walter Schill}, title = {Attributable Risk Estimation from Case-Control Data via Logistic Regression}, journal = {Biometrics}, volume = {47}, year = {1991}, pages = {1247-1256}, summary = {Fitting an unconditional logistic regression model to unmatched case-control data to obtain an estimate of the joint population attributable risk for the factor included.}, } @article{Duan83, Author = {Duan, Naihua_et al.}, Journal = {Journal of Business and Economic Statistics}, Number = {2}, Pages = {115 - 126}, Title = {A Comparison of Alternative Models for the Demand for Medical Care}, Volume = {1}, Year = {1983}, summary = {Tests alternative models of the demand for medical care using experimental data.}, } @article{Dunbar02, Author = {Dunbar, R. I. M.}, Journal = {International Journal of Primatology}, Number = {4}, Pages = {785 - 819}, Title = {Modelling Primate Behavioral Ecology.}, Volume = {23}, Year = {2002}, summary = {A review of the principal models used to study primate behaviour and ecology including linear programming models, systems models, optimality models, stochastic dynamic programming models and agent-based simulation models.}, } @article{dunlop00, Author = {Dunlop, Sheryl and Coyte, Peter C. and McIsaac, Warren}, Journal = {Social Science \& Medicine}, Keywords = {Socio-economic status; Utilisation; Primary and specialist services; Canada}, Number = {1}, Pages = {123--133}, Title = {Socio-economic status and the utilisation of physicians' services: results from the Canadian National Population Health Survey}, Volume = {51}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Assesses the extent to which Canada's health care system has eliminated socio-economic barriers in the use of physician services. }, } %%%%% EEEEEEEEE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{ecker97, Author = {Ecker, Klaus and Gupta, Jatinder N. D. and Schmidt, Gunter}, Journal = {European Journal of Operational Research}, Number = {3}, Pages = {452--462}, Title = {A framework for decision support systems for scheduling problems}, Volume = {101}, Year = {1997}, summary = {Investigates the need to include problem management as an integral component of the decision support system for scheduling problems.}, } @Incollection{eckmann62, author = {B. Eckmann and T. Ganea and P. J. Hilton}, title = {Generalized Means}, booktitle = {Studies in Mathematical Analysis}, publisher = {Stanford University Press}, year = {1962}, pages = {82-92}, summary = {XXX}, } @Misc{eckmann03, author = {Beno Eckmann}, title = {Social Choice and Topology}, year = 2003, note = {Lecture delivered at ETH Z\"urich, Oct.~24, 2003.}, summary = {Investigates the link between a new social choice model and algebraic topology.}, } @Article{eddy03, author = {D. M. Eddy and L. Schlessinger}, title = {Validation of the {Archimedes} diabetes model}, journal = {Diabetes Care}, year = {2003}, volume = {26}, pages = {3102-3110}, summary = {The validation of the Archimedes model of diabetes and its complications for a variety of populations, organ systems, treatments and outcomes.}, } @Book{edgeworth1881, author = {F. Y. Edgeworth}, title = {Mathematical Psychics}, year = {1881}, publisher = {Kegan Paul}, address = {London}, summary = {Presents ideas on the generalized utility function, the indifference curve, and the contract curve; all of which are now used in economic theory.}, } @article{eichner98, Author = {Eichner, Matthew J.}, Journal = {American Economic Review}, Number = {2}, Pages = {117 - 121}, Title = {The Demand for Medical Care: What People Pay Does Matter.}, Volume = {88}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Investigates the behavioural response of individuals to changes in costs of health care.}, } @article{el-darzi98, Author = {El-Darzi, E. and Vasilakis, C. and Chaussalet, T. and Millard, P. H.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {2}, Pages = {143 - 149}, Title = {A simulation modelling approach to evaluating length of stay, occupancy, emptiness and bed blocking in a hospital geriatric department.}, Volume = {1}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Considers the problem of blockage in the flow of patients through geriatric hospitals using a queuing system.}, } @Article{engle-warnick06, author = {J.~Engle-Warnick and R.~L.~Slonim}, title = {Learning to trust in indefinitely repeated games}, journal = {Games and Economic Behavior}, year = {2006}, volume = {54}, pages = {95--114}, summary = {Examines how exogenously determined (stochastic) pas relationship lengths will affect trust and trustworthiness (the fulfillment of trusts) in new relationships.}, } @article{Eriksson01, author = {Eriksson, Ingeborg and Unden, Anna-Lena and Elofsson, Stig}, title = {Self-rated health. Comparisons between three different measures. Results from a population study}, journal = {Int. J. Epidemiol.}, volume = {30}, number = {2}, pages = {326-333}, year = {2001}, summary = {Compares different measures of global self-rated health.}, } @Article{evans95, author = {W. K. Evans and B. P. Wil and J-M Berthelot and M. C. Wolfson}, title = {Estimating the cost of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment in {Canada}: the {POHEM} model}, journal = {The Canadaian Journal of Oncology}, year = {1995}, volume = {5}, pages = {408-419}, summary = {This paper describes a method of modeling the costs of lung cancer care, where clinical algorithms were developed to describe the management of non-small cell and small cell lung cancer. } } @Article{evans00, author = {William K. Evans and B. Phyllis Will and Jean-Marie Berthelot and Diane M. Logan and Douglas J. Mirsky and Nancy Kelly}, title = {Breast cancer: better care for less cost. Is it possible?}, journal = {International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care}, year = {2000}, volume = {16}, pages = {1168-1178}, summary = {Uses the breast cancer submodel of Statistics Canada's Population Health Model to estimate the potential for cost reduction in acute care and the necessary investment into home care in order to implement an outpatient/early discharge strategy for operable breast cancer.}, } @article{evans90, Author = {Evans, Robert G. and Stoddart, Gregory L.}, Journal = {Social Science \& Medicine}, Number = {12}, Pages = {1347--1363}, Title = {Producing health, consuming health care}, Volume = {31}, Year = {1990}, summary = {Looks at various definitions of health and their consequent effects on policy.}, } @article{everrett02, Author = {Everrett, J. E.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {2}, Pages = {89 - 95}, Title = {A Decision Support Simulation Model for the Management of an Elective Surgery Waiting System.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Describes a simulation model designed to provide decision support for patient scheduling for elective surgery in the public hospital system.}, } @article{eyles01, Author = {Eyles, John and Brimacombe, Michael and Chaulk, Paul and Stoddart, Greg and Pranger, Tina and Moase, Olive}, Journal = {Social Science \& Medicine}, Number = {12}, Pages = {1611--1619}, Title = {What determines health? To where should we shift resources? : Attitudes towards the determinants of health among multiple stakeholder groups in Prince Edward Island, Canada}, Volume = {53}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Explores the significance of the determinants of health and the population health perspective among various groups.}, } %%%%%% FFFFFFF %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{fararo97, author = {Fararo, Thomas J.}, journal = {Sociological Forum}, number = {1}, pages = {73--101}, title = {Reflections on Mathematical Sociology}, volume = {12}, year = {1997}, summary = {A review of the development of mathematical sociology.}, } @Article{farnworth03, author = {Michael G. Farnworth}, title = {A game theoretic model of the relationship between prices and waiting times}, journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, year = {2003}, volume = {22}, pages = {47-60}, summary = {Examines the role of prices charged to patients as a policy tool for altering waiting times using a game theoretic model.}, } @article{Feenberg94, author = {{Feenberg, Daniel} and {Skinner, Jonathan}}, journal = {The Review of Economics and Statistics}, number = {4}, pages = {633--647}, title = {The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures}, volume = {76}, year = {1994}, summary = {Uses multivariate tobit estimated with a variant of the smooth simulated maximum likelihood method to correct for censoring bias when measuring the consequences of increasing medical costs of the elderly.}, } @article{ferrario01, Author = {Ferrario, M and Sega, R and Chatenoud, L and Mancia, G and Mocarelli, P and Crespi, C and Cesana, G}, Journal = {International Journal Of Epidemiology}, Number = {2}, Pages = {285 - 297}, Title = {Time trends of major coronary risk factors in a northern Italian population (1986-1994). How remarkable are socioeconomic differences in an industrialized low CHD incidence country?}, Volume = {30}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Estimates time trends of major coronary risk factors in an industrialized population and assess education class differences in risk factor prevalence and time trends.}, } @incollection{ferris04, author = {M. C. Ferris and J. Lim and D. M. Shepard}, editor = {M. L. Brandeau and F. Sainfort and W. P. Pierskalla}, booktitle = {Operations research and health care: A handbook of methods and applications}, title = {Optimization tools for radiation treatment planning in {Matlab}}, publisher = {Kluwer}, year = {2004}, series = {International series in operations research and management science}, address = {Boston}, pages = {775-806}, summary = {A description of a suite of optimization tools for radiation treatment planning using Matlab.}, } @Article{flanagan03, author = {William M. Flanagan and Christel {Le} Petit and Jean-Marie Berthelot and Kathleen J. White and B. Ann Coombs and Elaine Jones-McLean}, title = {Potential impact of population-based colorectal cancer screening in {Canada}}, journal = {Chronic Diseases in {Canada}}, year = {2003}, volume = {24}, pages = {81-88}, summary = {Investigates the potential impact of a population-based screening process with FOBT (fecal occult blood test) followed by colonoscopy in Canada, specifically with regards to mortality reduction, cost-effectiveness and resource requirements.}, } @ARTICLE{foley05, author = {Robert D. Foley and David R. McDonald}, title = {Bridges and networks: Exact asymptotics}, journal = {ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY}, volume = {15}, pages = {542}, year = {2005}, summary = {Extends a previous Markov additive methodology to obtain sharp asymptotics of the steady state probability of a queuing network.} } @Article{fone03, author = {David Fone and Sandra Hollinghurst and Mark Temple and Nathan Lester and Alison Round and Nathan Lester and Alison Weightman and Katherine Roberts and Edward Coyle and Gwyn Bevan and Stephan Palmer}, title = {Systematic review of the use and value of computer simulation modelling in population health and health care delivery}, journal = {Journal of Public Health Medicine}, year = {2003}, volume = {25}, pages = {325-335}, summary = { Reviews the quality and use of computer simulation modelling in population health and health care delivery.} } @article{Forni99, Author = {Forni, Mario and Lippi, Marco}, Journal = {Journal of Mathematical Economics}, Number = {1}, Pages = {131 - 158}, Title = {Aggregation of Linear Dynamic Microeconomic Models}, Volume = {31}, Year = {1999}, summary = {A survey of a number of results concerning aggregation of dynamic, stochastic relations. }, } @Book{forrester61, author = {Jay W. Forrester}, title = {Industrial dynamics}, publisher = {Pegasus Communications}, year = {1961}, address = {Waltham, MA}, summary = {Explains how managers' actions shape the dynamic characteristics of a broad range of organizations.}, } @article{forrester95, Author = {Forrester, Jay W.}, Journal = {McKinsey Quarterly}, VOLUME = {4}, Pages = {4 - 16}, Title = {The beginning of system dynamics.}, Year = {1995}, summary = {A personal recollection on the development of system dynamics.}, } @InCollection{forrester91, author = {Jay W. Forrester}, title = {System Dynamics and the Lessons of 35 Years}, booktitle = {The Systemic Basis of Policy Making in the 1990s}, publisher = {MIT Press}, year = {1991}, editor = {Kenyon B. {de Greene}}, summary = {Looks at the development of system dynamics and it uses.}, } @article{forrester94, Author = {Forrester, Jay W.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {2/3}, Pages = {245 - 256}, Title = {System dynamics, systems thinking, and soft OR.}, Volume = {10}, Year = {1994}, summary = {Discusses systems thinking and soft operations research as related to system dynamics.}, } @article{forrester71, author = {Jay W. Forrester}, title = {Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems}, journal = {Technology Review}, volume = {73}, number = {3}, pages = {52 - 68}, year = {1971}, summary = {Investigates new methods for understanding social systems.}, } @article{forshee05, Author = {Forshee, Richard A. and Storey, Maureen L. and Ginevan, Michael E.}, Journal = {Risk Analysis: An International Journal}, Number = {5}, Pages = {1121 - 1135}, Title = {A Risk Analysis Model of the Relationship Between Beverage Consumption from School Vending Machines and Risk of Adolescent Overweight.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Uses risk analysis to assess the relationship between soft drink consumption and body mass index.}, } @article{fouladvand99, author = {M.~E.~Fouladvand and H.-W.~Lee}, title = {Exactly solvable two-way traffic model with ordered sequential update}, journal = {Phys.\ Rev.~E}, volume = {60}, year = {1999}, pages = {6465--6479}, summary = {Using a two-species asymmetric exclusion process to describe a two-way traffic flow and a phase transition between free flow and traffic jam.}, } @misc{framingham02, key = {Framingham}, title = {The {F}ramingham Heart Study}, year = {2002}, note = {\url{http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/framingham}}, summary = {An ongoing comprehensive study looking at the general causes of heart disease and stroke.}, } Frakt 2001 summary = {Provides a technical overview of the American HealthCare Association's long-term care microsimulation model.}, @Article{friedman03, author = {Daniel J. Friedman and Barbara Starfield}, title = {Models of Population Health: Their Value for US Public Health Practice, Policy, and Research}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, year = {2003}, volume = {93}, pages = {366-369}, summary = {The potential value of models of population health in public health practice and policy-making.}, } @Article{fries98, author = {J. F. Fries and C. E. Koop and J. Sokolov and C. E. Beadle and D. Wright}, title = {Beyond health promotion: reducing need and demand for medical care}, journal = {Health Affairs}, year = {1998}, volume = {17}, pages = {70-84}, summary = {Looks at a variety of health education programs designed to reduce health risks and reduce the associated costs.}, } %%%%% GGGGGGGG %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @Book{gallegati99, editor = {Mauro Gallegato and Alan Kirman}, title = {Beyond the representative agent}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {Cheltenham, UK}, summary = {Suggests extending standard economic theory to take into account the presence of heterogeneity among economic agents and argues for an approach to economic analysis that regards the economy as an interactive system of heterogeneous agents.}, } @Book{gallegati04, editor = {Mauro Gallegato and Alan P. Kirman and Matteo Marsili}, title = {The Complex Dynamics of Economic Interaction: Essays in Economics and Econophsyics}, series = {Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems}, year = {2004}, volume = {531}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, summary = {Deals with the economy as a complex interactive system, with an emphasis on the direct interaction between agents, rather than the indirect interaction through the market mechanism.} } @article{gallivan02, Author = {Gallivan, Steve and Utley, Martin and Treasure, Tom and Valencia, Oswaldo}, Journal = {BMJ: British Medical Journal}, Number = {7332}, Pages = {280 - 282}, Title = {Booked inpatient admissions and hospital capacity: mathematical modelling study.}, Volume = {324}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Uses mathematical modeling to investigate the variability in patients' lenth of stay in intensive care after cardiac surgery.}, } @article{gallivan05, author = {S.~Gallivan}, title = {Mathematical methods to assist with hopsital operation and planning}, journal = {Clin.\ Invest.\ Med.}, year = {2005}, volume = {28}, pages = {326--330}, summary = {Investigates the variability of patients' length of stay in intensive care after cardiac surgery and the potential interactions between such variability, booked admissions, and capacity requirement.}, } @Article{gendreau01, author = {M. Gendreau and G. Laporte and F. Semet}, title = {A dynamic model and parallel tabu search heuristic for real-time ambulance relocation}, journal = {Parallel Computing}, year = {2001}, volume = {27}, pages = {1641--1653}, summmary = {Looks at the problem of redeployment of a fleet of ambulances using a dynamic model that includes a parallel tabu search heuristic to compute redeployment scenarios.}, } @Conference{gentry06, author = {S. Gentry and T. S. Michael}, title = {Maximum matching inequalities for kidney paired donation}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3--5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Looks at maximizing kidney paired donation (matches one patient and his incompatible donor with another patient and donor in the same situation) using a maximum edge weight system.}, } @article{gerdtham97, Author = {Gerdtham, Ulf-G.}, Journal = {Health Economics}, Number = {3}, Pages = {303 - 319}, Title = {Equity in Health Care Utilization: Further Tests Based on Hurdle Models and Swedish Micro Data}, Volume = {6}, Year = {1997}, summary = {Tests the null hypothesis of no horizontal inequity in the delivery of health care using count hurdle models and Swedish micro data.}, } @article{gilleskie98, Author = {Gilleskie, Donna B.}, Journal = {Econometrica}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1 - 45}, Title = {A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Medical Care Use and Work Absence}, Volume = {66}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Uses a theoretical models to explore the medical care consumption and absenteeism decisions of employed persons with acute illnesses. }, } @article{gissel98, Author = {Gissel, Andreas and Knauth, Peter}, Journal = {International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics}, Number = {3-4}, Pages = {233--242}, Title = {Assessment of shift systems in the German industry and service sector: A computer application of the Besiak procedure}, Volume = {21}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Uses a Besiak procedure to determine the compliancew ith ergonomic principles in the design of shift systems.}, } @Article{gjerde05, author = {Jon Gjerde and Sverre Grepperud and Snorre Kverndokk}, title = {On adaption and the demand for health}, journal = {Applied Economics}, year = {2005}, volume = {37}, pages = {1283-1301}, summary = {An analysis of the impacts of adaptation to failing health done by integrating adaptation processes in a Grossman type of pure consumption model.}, } @Article{glied02, author = {Sherry A. Glied and Dahlia K. Remler}, title = {What Every Public Finance Economist Needs to Know About Health Economics: Recent Advances and Unresolved Questions}, journal = {National Tax Journal}, volume = {LV}, year = {2002}, pages = {771-788}, summary = {A paper that looks at the limitations of the standard theoretical framework of health economics and discusses new developments that may correct some of these limitations.}, } @book{glover97, Author={Glover, F. and Laguna, M.}, TITLE={Tabu Search}, YEAR={1997}, PUBLISHER={Springer}, ADDRESS={New York}, PAGES={xviii+382}, summary={explores the meta-heuristics approach called tabu search.}, } @article{goldberg04, Author={Goldberg, J. B.}, title={Operations Research Models for the Deployment of Emergency Services Vehicles}, Journal={EMS Management Journal}, volume={1}, number={1}, year={2004}, pages={20--39}, summary={reviews the development and current state of operations research for deployment and planning analysis pertaining to Emergency Medical Services and Fire Departments}, } @article{goldbeter-2006, Author={Goldbeter, A.}, title={A model for the dynamics of human weight cycling}, Journal={J. Biosci.}, volume={31}, year={2006}, pages={129--136}, summary={develops and solves a simple system dynamics ODE model for human weight cycling}, } @article{goldman78, Author = {Goldman, Fred and Grossman, Michael}, Journal = {Journal of Political Economy}, Number = {2}, Pages = {259 - 280}, Title = {The Demand for Pediatric Care: An Hedonic Approach.}, Volume = {86}, Year = {1978}, summary = {Develops a model to analyze properties of demand functions for the quantity and quality of physicians services, particularly pediatric care.}, } @Book{goldstein03, author = {Harvey Goldstein}, title = {Multilevel Statistical Models}, publisher = {Arnold}, address = {London}, year = {2003}, summary = {Explains important new developments in multilevel statistical models and its applications in various fields.} } @Article{goodman61, author = {Leo A. Goodman}, title = {Statistical methods for the {Mover-Stayer} model}, journal = {Journal of the American Statistical Association}, year = {1961}, volume = {56}, pages = {841-868}, summary = {A paper looking at the mover-stayer model, using various estimators and looking at the accuracy of these estimators, and testing several different hypotheses.}, } @article{gonzalez99, Author = {Gonz\'alez-Busto, B. and Garc\'ia, R.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {3}, Pages = {201 - 224}, Title = {Waiting lists in Spanish public hospitals: a system dynamics approach.}, Volume = {15}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Constructs a system dynamics simulation model to improve understanding of the behaviour of wait lists over time and the effect of policy on wait times.}, } @article{gorunescu02, Author = {Gorunescu, Florin and McClean, Sally I. and Millard, Peter H.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {307 - 312}, Title = {Using a Queueing Model to Help Plan Bed Allocation in a Department of Geriatric Medicine.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Integrates queuing theory and compartmental models of flow to investigate the effect of changing admission rates, length of stay and bed allocation influence bed occupancy, emptiness and rejection in geriatric departments of medicine.}, } @article{goss02, Author = {Goss, Ernest Preston and Vozikis, George S.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {3}, Pages = {221 - 227}, Title = {Improving Health Care Organizational Management Through Neural Network Learning.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Demonstrates that Neural Network techniques may predict mortality in intensive care units more accurately than Binary Logit Regression.}, } @Article{gravelle98, author = {H. Gravelle}, title = {How much of the relation between population mortality and unequal distribution of income is a statistical artifact?}, journal = {British Medical Journal}, year = {1998}, volume = {316}, pages = {382-385}, summary = {Looks at the absolute income hypothesis and the relative income hypothesis and how some of the mechanisms behind the relative income hypothesis are poorly understood.}, } @article{gravelle02, Author = {Gravelle, Hugh and Dusheiko, Mark and Sutton, Matthew}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {3}, Pages = {423--449}, Title = {The demand for elective surgery in a public system: time and money prices in the UK National Health Service}, Volume = {21}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Constructs a model of the admission process for patients from general practices for elective surgery.}, } @article{Green, AUTHOR = {Green, L. V. and Savin, S.}, TITLE = {Providing Timely Access to Medical Care: a Queueing Model}, JOURNAL = {Operations Research}, PAGES ={1--42}, VOLUME = {preprint}, YEAR={2008}, } @incollection{green04, author = {L. V. Green}, editor = {M. L. Brandeau, F. Sainfort and W. P. Pierskalla}, booktitle = {Operations research and health care: A handbook of methods and applications}, title = {Capacity planning and management in hospitals}, publisher = {Kluwer}, year = {2004}, series = {International series in operations research and management science}, address = {Boston}, pages = {15-42}, summary = {Describes the general background and issues involved in hospital capacity planning and provides examples of how OR models can be used to provide insights into operational strategies and practices. }, } @Article{greenland06, author = {Sander Greenland}, title = {Bayesian perspectives for epidemiological research: {I.} Foundations and basic methods}, journal = {International Journal of Epidemiology}, volume = {35}, year = {2006}, pages = {765-775}, summary = {Compares Bayesian analyses with frequentist methods, and presents some of the misconceptions of Bayesian methods.}, } @article{grier05, Author = {Grier, Sonya and Bryant, Carol A.}, Journal = {Annual Review of Public Health}, Number = {1}, Pages = {319 - 339}, Title = {SOCIAL MARKETING IN PUBLIC HEALTH..}, Volume = {26}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Provides a practical definition and background on social marketing and its potential use in public health.}, } @article{Griffin04, author = {Griffin, Simon J. and Kinmonth, Ann-Louise and Veltman, Marijcke W. M. and Gillard, Susan and Grant, Julie and Stewart, Moira}, title = {{Effect on Health-Related Outcomes of Interventions to Alter the Interaction Between Patients and Practitioners: A Systematic Review of Trials}}, journal = {Ann Fam Med}, volume = {2}, number = {6}, pages = {595-608}, year = {2004}, summary = {Identifies trials of interventions to alter the interaction between patients and practitioners and assess whether such interventions improve the health and well-being of patients.}, } @Article{grootendorst95, author = {P. V. Grootendorst}, title = {A comparison of alternative models of prescription drug utilization}, journal = {Health Economics}, year = {1995}, volume = {4}, pages = {183-198}, summary = {Compares the two-part estimation technique for estimating prescription drug utilization in older adults with other estimators, including the Poisson, negative binomial and "zero altered" negative binomial models. }, } @Article{grossman72, author = {Michael Grossman}, title = {On the concept of health capital and the demand for health}, journal = {The Journal of Political Economy}, year = {1972}, volume = {80}, pages = {223-255}, summary = {Constructs a model of the demand for the commodity "good health" and looks at the "shadow price" of health (variables other than the price of medical care).}, } @TechReport{grossman99, author = {Michael Grossman}, title = {The human capital model of the demand for health}, institution = {National Bureau Of Economic Research}, year = {1999}, summary = {A detailed look at the human capital model of the demand for health, including theoretical predictions and theoretical extensions. }, } @Article{grossman04, author = {Michael Grossman}, title = {The demand for health, 30 years later: a very personal retrospective}, journal = {The Journal of Health Economics}, year = {2004}, volume = {23}, pages = {629--636}, summary = {The author acknowledges many people he felt contributed greatly to his ongoing education and reviews some of the literature that looks at whether education causes health.}, } @book {grotschel01, TITLE = {Online optimization of large scale systems}, EDITOR = {Gr{\"o}tschel, Martin and Krumke, Sven O. and Rambau, J{\"o}rg}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin}, YEAR = {2001}, PAGES = {xii+803}, ISBN = {3-540-42459-8}, MRCLASS = {90-06 (00B15 49-06 93-06)}, MRNUMBER = {MR1860618 (2002d:90004)}, summary={attempts to display the current state of online and real-time optimization to a broad audience.}, } @inproceedings{guerin04, author = {Stephen M. Guerin}, title = {PEEKING INTO THE BLACK BOX: SOME ART AND SCIENCE TO VISUALIZING AGENT-BASED MODELS}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, year = {2004}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters,}, pages = {749 - 754}, summary = {Explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models.}, } @article{guillen05, Author = {Guillen, Montserrat and Vidiella-i-Anguera, Antoni}, Journal = {Risk Analysis: An International Journal}, Number = {5}, Pages = {1161 - 1170}, Title = {Forecasting Spanish Natural Life Expectancy.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Studies the feasibility of decomposing age-gender-specific accidental and natural mortality rates using the Lee and Carter model.}, } @Book{gunning-schepers89, author = {Louise Gunning-Schepers}, title = {The Health Benefits of Prevention}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, year = {1989}, summary = {Discusses the use of the Prevent model in health policy making.}, } @article{guo00, Author = {Guang Guo and Hongxin Zhao}, Journal = {Annual Review of Sociology}, Number = {1}, Pages = {441 - 462}, Title = {MULTILEVEL MODELING FOR BINARY DATA.}, Volume = {26}, Year = {2000}, summary = {A review of some of the work done using the multi-level logit model.}, } @Article{gurmu97, author = {Shiferaw Gurmu}, title = {Semi-parametric estimation of hurdle regression models with an application to {Medicaid} utilization}, journal = {Journal of Applied Econometrics}, year = {1997}, volume = {12}, pages = {225-242}, summary = {Develops a semi-parametric estimation method for hurdle (two-part) count regression models and evaluates the impact of managed car programs for Medicaid eligibles on utilization of heath-care services.}, } @Book{gutin02, editor = {G. Gutin and A. P. Punnen}, title = {The traveling salesman problem and its variations}, publisher = {Kluwer}, series = {Combinatorial Optimization}, year = {2002}, address = {Netherlands}, summary = {Covers important areas of and provides theories and algorithms for the traveling salesman problem. }, } @Article{gyrd-hansen03, author = {Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar S\onb\o and J\orgen Nex\oe and Jesper Bo Nielsen}, title = {How Do Individuals Apply Risk Information When Choosing Among Health Care Interventions?}, journal = {Risk Analysis}, volume = {23}, year = {2003}, pages = {697-704}, summary = {Measures the relative weighting by individuals of different types of risk information under various circumstances. }, } %%%%%%% HHHHHHH %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{ha-duong04, Author = {Minh Ha-Duong and Casman, Elizabeth A. and Morgan, M. Granger}, Journal = {Risk Analysis: An International Journal}, Number = {5}, Pages = {1071 - 1083}, Title = {Bounding Poorly Characterized Risks: A Lung Cancer Example.}, Volume = {24}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Outlines a method of bounding the fraction of lung cancer fatalities not due to specific well-studied causes. }, } @article{hadorn00, Author = {Hadorn, David C. and Steering Committee}, Journal = {CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal}, Number = {7}, Pages = {857 - 861}, Title = {Setting priorities for waiting lists: defining our terms.}, Volume = {163}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Reviews the need for clearly defined key terms when assessing patient priority for services and suggests definitions for severity, urgency, need and priority.}, } @article {Hadorn03, author = {Hadorn David C.}, title = {Setting priorities on waiting lists: point-count systems as linear models}, journal = {Journal of Health Services Research and Policy}, volume = {8}, year = {2003}, pages = {48-54}, summary = {Describes the relevance of the functional relationship between point-count measures assessing severity of patients' conditions and the extent of benefit expected from wait-list services for the development and validation of priority criteria. } } @article{hagenaars, Author = {Hagenaars, T. J. and van Genugten, M. L. L. and Wallinga, J.}, Journal = {International Congress Series}, Keywords = {Pandemic influenza; Dynamic model; Transmission}, Pages = {235--238}, Title = {Pandemic influenza and health care demand: dynamic modelling}, Volume = {1263}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Uses a dynamic model to simulate a potential flu pandemics and its effects, and looks at possible interventions.}, } @Article{hahn95, author = {R. A. Hahn and E. Eaker and N. D. Barker and S. M. Teutsch and W. Sosniak and N. Krieger}, title = {Poverty and Death in the {United} {States} --- 1973 and 1991}, journal = {Epidemiology}, volume = {6}, number = {5}, year = {1995}, pages = {490-497}, summary = {Estimates the effect of poverty on mortality by calculating the population attributable risk.}, } @Book{Haken83, author = {H. Haken}, title = {Synergetics, an introduction: nonequilibrium phase transitionsand self-organization in physics, chemistry, and biology}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, year = {1983}, address = {New York}, summary = {Provides an introduction to synergistics, and its application to complex, self-organizing systems in physics, chemistry and biology. }, } @Article{hakes04, author = {Jahn Karl Hakes and W. Kip Viscusi}, title = {Dead Reckoning: Demographic Determinants of the Accuracy of Mortality Risk Perceptions}, journal = {Risk Analysis}, volume = {24}, year = {2004}, pages = {651-664}, summary = {Looks at how biases in risk beliefs vary across the population and the determinants of this variety. }, } @article{hall06, author = {Randolph W. 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Tyndall}, title = {Potential use of safer injecting facilities among injection drug users in {Vancouver's} downtown eastside }, journal = {Canadian Medical Association Journal}, year = {2003}, volume = {169}, number = {8}, pages = {759-762}, summary = {An analysis presenting potential use of a safer injection facility by injection drug users, and an evaluation of Health Canada restrictions and current police activity on the use of the facility.}, } @Article{kickbusch03, author = {Ilona Kickbusch}, title = {The Contribution of the World Health Organization to a New Public Health and Health Promotion}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, year = {2003}, volume = {93}, pages = {383-388}, summary = {Traces the development of the concept of health promotion and looks at policies and approaches that are targeting health promotion.}, } @article{kindig03, Author = {Kindig, David and Stoddart, Greg}, Journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, Number = {3}, Pages = {380 - 383}, Title = {What is Population Health?}, Volume = {93}, Year = {2003}, summary = {Proposes a clear definition of population health.}, } @article{kinmonth98, Author = {Kinmonth, Ann Louise and Woodcock, Alison and Griffin, Simon and Spiegal, Nicki and Campbell, Michael J}, Journal = {BMJ: British Medical Journal}, Number = {7167}, Pages = {1202 - 1208}, Title = {Randomised controlled trial of patient centred care of diabetes in general practice: Impact on current wellbeing and future disease risk.}, Volume = {317}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Assesses the effect of additional training of nurses and general practitioners in patient centered care on the lifestyle, psychological and physiological status of patients with type II diabetes. }, } @TechReport{kirby01-v1, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume one - The story so far}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2001}, summary = {Presents the history of Canada's publicly funded health care system, what factors affect the health of Canadians, and ongoing health care debates.}, } @TechReport{kirby01-v4, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume four - Issues and options}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2001}, summary = {Identifies key public policy issues with respect to the role of the federal government in health care and presents potential options for addressing these issues.}, } @TechReport{kirby02-v2, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume two - Current trends and future challenges}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {Examines factors that affect the affordability and sustainability of Medicare.}, } @TechReport{kirby02-v3, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume three - Health care systems in other countries}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {Describes and compares the way health care is financed and delivered in several foreign countries, as well as national government health care policy in those countries from which Canada could learn. }, } @TechReport{kirby02-v5, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume five - Principles and recommendations for reform - part 1}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {Provides a set of principles to guide the restructuring and financing of the health care delivery system.}, } @TechReport{kirby02-v6, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume six - recommendations for reform}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {Provides recommendations for reform and renewal of the Canadian health care system.}, } @TechReport{kirby02-v6, author = {{Kirby Committee}}, title = {The Health of {Canadians} - The federal Role Volume six (highlights) - recommendations for reform}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {Provides and overview of the recommendations for reform of Canda's health care system as outlined in Volume six.}, } @article{kiresuk93, Author = {Kiresuk, Thomas J.}, Journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {235 - 241}, Title = {The Evaluation of Knowledge Utilization: Placebo and Nonspecific Effects, Dynamical Systems, and Chaos Theory.}, Volume = {44}, Year = {1993}, summary = {Looks at research issues related to knowledge transfer and utilization models.}, } @Book{kirman01, editor = {Alan Kirman and Jean Beno\^it Zimmermann}, title = {Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents}, series = {Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems}, year = {2001}, volume = {503}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, summary = {Analyzes situations in which individuals, who may differ from one another, interact and behave on the aggregate level that does not correspond to that of the average individual.}, } @Article{kirman92, author = {Alan Kirman}, title = {Whom or What Does the Representative Individual Represent?}, journal = {The Journal of Economic Perspectives}, year = {1992}, volume = {6}, pages = {117-136}, summary = {Explains that the reduction of behaviour of a group of heterogeneous agents is not simply an analytical convenience, but it can be unjustified, misleading, and wrong. }, } @article{kirkpatrick83, Author = {Kirkpatrick, S. and Gelatt, C. D. and Vecchi, Jr. M.P.}, TITLE={Optimization by Simulated Annealing}, JOURNAL={Science}, YEAR={1983}, VOLUME={220}, Number={4598}, pages={671--680}, summary={discusses optimization by simulated annealing.}, } @article{Knauth96, Author = {Knauth, P. }, Journal = {Applied Ergonomics}, Number = {1}, Pages = {39--44}, Title = {Designing better shift systems}, Volume = {27}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Presents recommendations for the design of shift systems according to physiological, psychological and social criteria.}, } @article{Koc04, Author = {Koc, Cagatay}, Journal = {Economics Letters}, Number = {1}, Pages = {9--14}, Title = {A theoretical rationale for an inelastic demand for health care}, Volume = {82}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Provides a theoretical rationale for the finding that the demand for health care is inelastic.}, } @article{koizumi05, Author = {Koizumi, Naoru and Kuno, Eri and Smith, Tony E.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {1}, Pages = {49--60}, Title = {Modeling Patient Flows Using a Queuing Network with Blocking}, Volume = {8}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Applies a queuing network system with blocking to analyze congestion processes, such as patients spending unnecessary extra days in intensive facilities.}, } @Conference{kong06, author = {N. Kong}, title = {Optimizing the efficiency of the liver allocation system through region reorganization: a branch and price approach}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3--5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Estimates organ allocation efficiency using a set-partition model to find the most efficient set of regions (the U.S. is currently divided into 11 regions).}, } @article{koszegi03, Author = {Koszegi, Botond}, Journal = {Journal of Health Economics}, Number = {6}, Pages = {1073--1084}, Title = {Health anxiety and patient behavior}, Volume = {22}, Year = {2003}, summary = {Constructs an economic model of patient decision-making when fears or anxiety bout the future enter the patients utility function.}, } @inproceedings{kropp78, author = {Dean H. Kropp and Robert C. Carlson and James V. Jucker}, title = {USE OF BOTH OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION MODELS TO ANALYZE COMPLEX SYSTEMS}, booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH CONFERENCE ON WINTER SIMULATION}, year = {1978}, pages = {195 - 201}, summary = {Proposes the use of a recursive optimization-simulation approach for planning in complex facilities.}, } @article{kuczmarski01, Author = { Kuczmarski, Marie Fanelli and Kuczmarski, Robert J. and Najjar, Matthew }, Journal = {Journal of the American Dietetic Association}, Number = {1}, Pages = {28--34}, Title = {Effects of Age on Validity of Self-Reported Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index: Findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994}, Volume = {101}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Compares self-reported to measured height and weight to determine to what extent body mass index calculated from self-reported dat affects overweight prevalence.} } @TechReport{kverndokk00a, author = {Snorre Kverndokk}, title = {Why do people demand health?}, institution = {Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, University of Oslo}, year = {2000}, summary = {Proposes several ways to extend the standard model for health and health service and models psychological aspects within a Grossman model framework. }, } @Techreport{Kverndokk00b, Author ={Kjell Arne Brekke, Snorre Kverndokk and Karine Nyborg}, Title = {An Economic Model of Moral Motivation}, Year = {2000}, Institution = {Research Department of Statistics Norway}, Type = {Discussion Papers}, Note = {available at http://ideas.repec.org/p/ssb/dispap/290.html}, Number = {290}, summary = {Presents an economic model of moral motivation.}, } %%%% LLLLLL %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{Lahiri04, Author = {Lahiri, Kajal and Xing, Guibo}, Journal = {Empirical Economics}, Number = {2}, Pages = {431 - 449}, Title = {An econometric analysis of veterans' health care utilization using two-part models.}, Volume = {29}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Analyzes veterans' inpatient and outpatient healthcare utilization patterns by estimating count data two-part hurdle models.}, } @article{Laine96, author = {Laine, C. and Davidoff, F.}, title = {{Patient-centered medicine. A professional evolution}}, journal = {JAMA}, volume = {275}, number = {2}, pages = {152-156}, year = {1996}, summary = {Describes the evolution from physician centered medicine to patient-centered care in different areas of medicine. }, } @Article{lane00, author = {D. C. Lane and C. Monefeldt and J. V. Rosenhead}, title = {Looking in the Wrong Place for Healthcare Improvements: A system dynamics study of an accident and emergency department}, journal = {Journal of the Operational Research Society}, year = {2000}, volume = {51}, number = {5}, pages = {518-531}, summary = {Formulates a system dynamics model to explore the factors that contribute to long wait times for urgent admissions to acute care in hospitals}, } @Article{lane98, author = {David Lane and Camilla Monefeldt and Jonathan Rosenhead}, title = {Emergency - but no Accident --- a system dynamics study of an accident and emergency department}, journal = {OR Insight}, year = {1998}, summary = {XXX}, } @article{langlie77, author = {Langlie, Jean K.}, journal = {Journal of Health and Social Behavior}, number = {3}, pages = {244--260}, publisher = {American Sociological Association}, title = {Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behavior}, volume = {18}, year = {1977}, summary = {Uses multiple regression analyses to assess the ability of the Health Belief Model to account for observed variation in various preventative health behaviours}, } @article{Lattimer04, author = {Lattimer, V and Brailsford, S and Turnbull, J and Tarnaras, P and Smith, H and George, S and Gerard, K and Maslin-Prothero, S}, title = {{Reviewing emergency care systems I: insights from system dynamics modelling}}, journal = {Emerg Med J}, volume = {21}, number = {6}, pages = {685-691}, year = {2004}, summary = {Describes the components of an emergency and urgent care system within one health authority and suggests ways in which patient flow and system capacity could be improved.}, } @article{lau96, Author = {Chuin Lau, Hoong}, Journal = {Computers \& Operations Research}, Number = {1}, Pages = {93--102}, Title = {On the complexity of manpower shift scheduling}, Volume = {23}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Considers the shift assignment problem in scheduling and shows that a restricted version of it is NP-hard by a reduction from 3SAT.}, } @book{lawle85, editor = {E. L. Lawler and J. K. Lenstra and A. H. G. {Rinnoy Kan} and D. B. Shmoys}, title = {The traveling salesman problem: A guided tour of combinatorial optimization}, publisher = {Wiley and Sons}, year = {1985}, address = {New York}, summary = {An in-depth analysis of the Traveling Salesman problem.}, } @article{lee97, author = {H.-W.~Lee and V.~Popkov and D.~Kim}, title = {Two-way traffic flow: exactly solvable model of traffic jam}, journal = {J. Phys.~A}, year = {1997}, volume = {30}, pages = {8497--8513}, summary = {Studies a two-way channel exclusion process in one dimension to describe a two-way flow of traffic.}, } @Conference{lee06, author = {E. Lee and K. Cha}, title = {Large-scale computational techniques for intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning in cancer treatment}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Discusses some of the fundamental problems in intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning and looks at large-scale mixed integer programming. }, } @Book{lehmann98, author = {E. L. Lehmann and George Casella}, title = {Theory of point estimation}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, year = {1998}, address = {Berlin, New York}, summary = {A review of the classical estimation theory and modern applications.} } @Article{leibowitz04, author = {Arleen A. Leibowitz}, title = {The demand for health and health concerns after 30 years}, journal = {Health Economics}, year = {2004}, volume = {23}, pages = {663-671}, summary = {Examines Grossman's model of health and where future research is needed to place greater emphasis on the roles of non-medical consumption of goods, population level inputs and time in producing health capital.}, } @article{leischow06, Author = {Leischow, Scott J. and Milstein, Bobby}, Journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, Number = {3}, Pages = {403 - 405}, Title = {Systems Thinking and Modeling for Public Health Practice.}, Volume = {96}, Year = {2006}, summary = {An exploration of systems thinking and modeling in the public health discipline.}, } @article{leonard05, Author = {Kenneth L. Leonard, Joshua Graff Zivin,}, Journal = {Health Economics}, Number = {6}, Pages = {575-593}, Title = {Outcome versus service based payments in health care: lessons from African traditional healers}, Volume = {14}, Year = {2005}, summary = {Compares the physician compensation method of fee-for-service to the payment-for-outcomes method.}, } @Misc{lepetit06, key = {LePetit}, author = {C. {Le~Petit}}, title = {Statistics {Canada}. {Personal} communication}, year = {2006}, summary = {XXX}, } @article{Leurs2005, author = {Leurs, Mariken T. W. and Schaalma, Herman P. and Jansen, Maria W. J. and Mur-Veeman, Ingrid M. and St. Leger, Lawrence H. and de Vries, Nanne}, title = {{Development of a collaborative model to improve school health promotion in the Netherlands}}, journal = {Health Promot. Int.}, volume = {20}, number = {3}, pages = {296-305}, year = {2005}, summary = {Investigates the results of the implementation of school health promotion programs and future improvements. }, } @Article{levin53, author = {M. L. Levin}, title = {The occurrence of lung cancer in man}, journal = {Acta Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum}, volume = {9}, year = {1953}, pages = {531-541}, summary = {XXX}, } @unpublished{lewis, title = {Managing Waiting Lists to Achieve Distributive Justice}, author = {Stephen Lewis and Claudia Sanmartin}, note = {A working paper prepared for the Western Canada Wait List Project}, summary = {Explores some of the logical and ethical implications of the work done for the Western Canada Wait List project.}, } @article{lewis00, Author = {Lewis,, Steven and Barer,, Morris L. and Sanmartin,, Claudia and Sheps,, Sam and Shortt,, Samuel E.D. and McDonald, Paul W.}, Journal = {CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal}, Number = {9}, Pages = {1297 - }, Title = {Ending waiting-list mismanagement: principles and practice.}, Volume = {162}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Investigates misconceptions about waiting lists and outlines a number of initiatives that could contribute to more durable solutions to the waiting list problem in Canada.}, } @article {LT02, AUTHOR = {Lewis, R. M. and Torczon, V.}, TITLE = {A globally convergent augmented {L}agrangian pattern search algorithm for optimization with general constraints and simple bounds}, JOURNAL = {SIAM J. Optim.}, FJOURNAL = {SIAM Journal on Optimization}, VOLUME = {12}, YEAR = {2002}, NUMBER = {4}, PAGES = {1075--1089}, ISSN = {1052-6234}, MRCLASS = {90C30 (65K05 90C56)}, MRNUMBER = {MR1922509 (2003f:90081)}, MRREVIEWER = {Alfredo N. Iusem}, summary={a pattern search method. }, } @Book{leznov92, author = {A. N. Leznov and M. V. Saveliev}, title = {Group-Theoretic Methods for the Integration of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems}, publisher = {Birkh\"auser}, address = {Basel}, year = {1992}, summary = {XXX}, } @article{Liddell04, Author = {Liddell, W. G. and Powell, J. H.}, Journal = {System Dynamics Review (Wiley)}, Number = {1}, Pages = {49 - 73}, Title = {Agreeing access policy in a general medical practice: a case study using QPID.}, Volume = {20}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Outlines a qualitative systems dynamics approach called qualitative politicized influence diagrams that may be useful in managing the general practice system behaviour.}, } @article{lindsay84, Author = {Lindsay, Cotton M. and Feigenbaum, Bernard}, Journal = {American Economic Review}, Number = {3}, Pages = {404 - 417}, Title = {Rationing by Waiting Lists.}, Volume = {74}, Year = {1984}, summary = {Examines a case in economics where queues of suppliers and customers emerge in a nonstochastic setting when price is below or above the market-clearing level.}, } @article{little01, Author = {Little, Paul and Everitt, Hazel and Williamson, Ian and Warner, Greg and Moore, Michael and Gould, Clare and Ferrier, Kate and Payne, Sheila}, Journal = {BMJ: British Medical Journal}, Number = {7284}, Pages = {468 - 474}, Title = {Preferences of patients for patient centered approach to consultation in primary care: observational study.}, Volume = {322}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Investigates patients' preferences for patient centered consultation in general practices.}, } @article{little01, Author = {Little, Paul and Everitt, Hazel and Williamson, Ian and Warner, Greg and Moore, Michael and Gould, Clare and Ferrier, Kate and Payne, Sheila}, Journal = {BMJ: British Medical Journal}, Number = {7318}, Pages = {908 - 911}, Title = {Observational study of effect of patient centredness and positive approach on outcomes of general practice consultations.}, Volume = {323}, Year = {2001}, summary = {Explores patients' perceptions of patient centered care and the relation of these perceptions to various outcomes.}, } @article{liu91, author = {{Liu, Chih-Ming} and {Wang, Kuo-Ming} and {Guh, Yuh-Yuan}}, group = {Case-Oriented Papers}, journal = {The Journal of the Operational Research Society}, number = {5}, pages = {357--364}, publisher = {Operational Research Society}, title = {A Markov Chain Model for Medical Record Analysis}, volume = {42}, year = {1991}, summary = {Develops a Markov chain model for the analysis of a centralized medical record system in a large general hospital.}, } @article{lomas85, Author = {Lomas, Jonathan and Stoddart, Greg L. and Barer, Morris L.}, Journal = {Social Science \& Medicine}, Number = {4}, Pages = {411--424}, Title = {Supply projections as planning: A critical review of forecasting net physician requirements in Canada}, Volume = {20}, Year = {1985}, summary = {A critical review of the current methods used to establish net future physician requirements in Canada.}, } @phdthesis{look03, author = {Mary V. Look}, title = {Policy Systems and their Complexity Dynamics: Academic Medical Centers and Managed Care Markets}, school = {Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University}, year = {2003}, address = {Virginia}, summary = {Examines how complexity theory may offer insight into the behavior of a population of large-scaled network organizational groups, with a focus on academic medical centers. }, } @article{lopex98, Author = {Angel L{\'o}pez-Nicol{\'a}s,}, Journal = {Health Economics}, Number = {5}, Pages = {429-437}, Title = {Unobserved heterogeneity and censoring in the demand for health care}, Volume = {7}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Estimates a demand for private medical services equation based on Grossman's model of demand for health. }, } @inproceedings{lowery98, title = {GETTING STARTED IN SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE}, author = {Julie C. Lowery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {D.J. Medeiros and E.F. Watson and J.S. Carson and M.S. Manivannan}, year = {1998}, pages = {31 - 35}, summary = {Getting started in simulation in healthcare }, } @article {lynch04, Author = {LYNCH, JOHN and SMITH, GEORGE DAVEY and HARPER, SAM and HILLEMEIER, MARIANNE and ROSS, NANCY and KAPLAN, GEORGE A. and WOLFSON, MICHAEL}, title = {Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review}, journal = {The Milbank Quarterly}, volume = {82}, year = {2004}, pages = {5-99}, summary = {Reviews a number of studies that examine the associations between income inequality and health.}, } @article{lynch04, Author = {Lynch, John and Davey#Smith, George and Harper, Sam and Hillemeier, Marianne}, Journal = {Milbank Quarterly}, Number = {2}, Pages = {355 - 400}, Title = {Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. U.S. National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality.}, Volume = {82}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Describes U.S. income inequality and regional trends in age- and cause-specific mortality}, } %%%%%% MMMMMM %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @Article{macinko01, author = {James Macinko and Barbara Starfield}, title = {The Utility of Social Capital in Research on Health Determinants}, journal = {The Milbank Quarterly}, volume = {79}, year = {2001}, pages = {387-427}, summary = {Explores differing definitions of social capital, its uses, its appearance and use in health inequalities literature, and suggestions for further refinement.}, } @article{maier73, Author = {Maier-Rothe, Christoph and Wolfe, Harry B.}, Journal = {Socio-Economic Planning Sciences}, Number = {5}, Pages = {471--487}, Title = {Cyclical scheduling and allocation of nursing staff}, Volume = {7}, Year = {1973}, summary = {Describes a procedure for allocating nursing staff that consists of two parts: a cyclical scheduling procedure and a procedure for the adjustment of staffing twice daily.}, } @article{manning87, Author = {Manning, Willard G. and Newhouse, Joseph P. and Duan, Naihua and Keeler, Emmett B. and Lelbowitz, Arleen and Marquis, M. Susan}, Journal = {American Economic Review}, Number = {3}, Pages = {251 - 277}, Title = {Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment.}, Volume = {77}, Year = {1987}, summary = {Estimates how cost sharing, the portion of the bill the patient pays, affects the demand for medical services.}, } @article{manning87, Author = {Manning, W. G. and Duan, N. and Rogers, W. H.}, Journal = {Journal of Econometrics}, Number = {1}, Pages = {59--82}, Title = {Monte Carlo evidence on the choice between sample selection and two-part models}, Volume = {35}, Year = {1987}, summary = {Examines the relative performance of sample selection and two-part models for data with a cluster at zero.}, } @article{manton83, author = {Kenneth G. Manton and Eric Stallard and H. Dennis Tolley}, title = {The Economic Impact of Health Policy Interventions}, journal = {Risk Analysis}, volume = {3}, number = {4}, pages = {265 - 275}, year = {1983}, summary = {Presents a strategy for forecasting health care costs that will arise due to the rapid aging of the population in the U.S. }, } @Article{mark00, author = {A. Mark and D. Pencheon and R. Elliott}, title = {Demanding Healthcare}, journal = {Int. J. Health Plann. and Mgmt.}, volume = {15}, year = {2000}, pages = {237-253}, summary = {Describes and compares the development of strategies to manage demand in healthcare in the UK and the U.S. }, } @article{maroun03, author = {Jean Maroun and Edward Ng and Jean-Marie Berthelot and Christel Le Petit and Simone Dahrouge and William M Flanagan and Hugh Walker and William K Evans}, title = {Lifetime costs of colon and rectal cancer management in Canada}, journal = {Chronic Diseases in Canada}, volume = {24}, number = {4}, year = {2003}, pges = {91 - 101}, summary = {Uses Statistics Canada's Population Health Model (POHEM) to estimate lifetime costs of colon and rectal cancer.}, } @article{marshall02, Author = {Marshall, A. H. and McClean, S. I. and Shapcott, C. M. and Millard, P. H.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {4}, Pages = {313 - 319}, Title = {Modelling Patient Duration of Stay to Facilitate Resource Management of Geriatric Hospitals.}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2002}, summary = {Presents a model that predicts the duration of stay distribution of patients in hospital. }, } @article{masterson04, Author = {Masterson, Brian J. and Mihara, Thomas G. and Miller, George and Randolph, Stephen C. and Forkner, M. Emma and Crouter, Andrew L.}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {3}, Pages = {217 - 224}, Title = {Using Models and Data to Support Optimization of the Military Health System: A Case Study in an Intensive Care Unit.}, Volume = {7}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Illustrates the utility of models in assisting managers in optimizing healthcare delivery in military medical centers. }, } @Conference{matta06, author = {M. Matta}, title = {Scheduling a hospital testing center: polynomial time algorithms for the proportionate multiprocessor open shop}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Describes a complex scheduling problem in a hospital diagnostic center that schedules hundreds of patients in an open shop environment. }, } @article{maynard83, Author = {Maynard, Alan}, Journal = {Journal of Economic Studies}, Number = {1}, Pages = {31 - 45}, Title = {The Production of Health and Health Care.}, Volume = {10}, Year = {1983}, summary = {Reviews economic literature on the production of health and health care and identifies gaps in knowledge.}, } @book{mccain03, author = {Roger McCain}, title = {Game Theory: A Non-Technical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy.}, year = {2003}, publisher = {South-Western College Pub}, summary = {Provides and introduction to the principles of game theory and its applications.} } @article{mcclean98, author = {{McClean, S. I.} and {McAlea, B.} and {Millard, P. H.}}, journal = {The Journal of the Operational Research Society}, number = {10}, pages = {1021--1025}, title = {Using a Markov Reward Model to Estimate Spend-Down Costs for a Geriatric Department}, volume = {49}, year = {1998}, summary = {Uses a Markov model to describe movements of geriatric patients within a hospital system.}, } @article{mccullagh89, author = {Peter McCullagh}, title = {Comments on ``The unifying role of iterative generalized least squares in statistical algorithms''}, journal = {Statistical Science}, year = {1989}, volume = {4}, pages = {404-405}, summary = {A commentary on del Pino's "The Unifying Role of Iterative Generalized Least Squares in Statistical Algorithms". }, } @article{mcdonnell, title = {The Dynamics of Hospital Medication Errors: A Systems Simulator Testbed for Patient Safety Interventions}, author = {G. McDonnell and M. Heffernan}, booktitle = {The 23rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society}, year = {2005}, summary = {Builds a systems simulation to identify the key determinants of medication errors.}, } @article{MGetal00, AUTHOR = {McGrail, K. M. and Green, B. and Barer, M. L. and Evans, R. G. and Hertzman, C. and Normand, C.}, TITLE = {Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in {B}ritish {C}olumbia}, JOURNAL = {Age and Ageing}, FJOURNAL = {Age and Ageing}, VOLUME = {29}, YEAR = {2000}, PAGES = {249--253}, } @article{mcmanus04, author = {McManus, Michael L. M.D. and Long, Michael C. M.D. and Litvak, Eugene}, title = {Queuing Theory Accurately Models the Need for Critical Care Resources}, journal = {Anesthesiology}, volume = {100}, number = {5}, pages = {1271 - 1276}, year = {2004}, summary = {Prospectively evaluates the performance of the queuing model in determining the proper allocation of intensive care beds over a two year period.}, } @book{mengel97, editor = {M. B. Mengel and S. A. Fields}, title = {Introduction to Clinical Skills: A Patient-Centered Textbook}, publisher = {Plenum}, year = {1997}, summary = {An introductory text to the clinical skills required by all physicians when treating patients.}, } @Article{merzel03, author = {Cheryl Merzel and Joanna D'Afflitti}, title = {Reconsidering Community-Based Health Promotion: Promise, Performance, and Potential}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, year = {2003}, volume = {93}, pages = {557-574}, summary = {Reviews a number of community-based health promotion programs to look at why many are achieving only a modest impact.}, } @article{meyerhoefer06, type={Working Paper Series}, title={{The Joint Demand for Health Care, Leisure, and Commodities:Implications for Health Care Finance and Access in Vietnam}}, author={Meyerhoefer, Chad D. and Sahn, David E. and Younger, Stephen D. }, journal={SSRN eLibrary}, year={2006}, publisher={SSRN}, location={http://ssrn.com/paper=472942}, summary = {Explores links between the demand for health care providers and the consumption of food, nonfood goods, and leisure using a mixed continuous/discrete dependant variable model. }, } @article{meyerowitz87, Author = {Meyerowitz, Beth E. and Chaiken, Shelly}, Journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology}, Number = {3}, Pages = {500 - 510}, Title = {The effect of message framing on breast self-examination attitudes, intentions, and behavior.}, Volume = {52}, Year = {1987}, summary = {Tests which style of pamphlet is more persuasive in increasing the number of breast self-examinations in college-age females.} } @Article{meyers03, author = {L.~A. Meyers and M.~E.~J.~Newman and M.~Martin and S.~Schrag}, title = {Applying network theory to epidemics: Control measures for {\it Mycoplasma pneuminiae} outbreaks}, journal = {Emerging Infectious Diseases}, year = {2003}, volume = {9}, pages = {204-210}, summary = {Introduces a mathematical approach to investigating the spread and control of mycoplasma pneumoniae with a particular focus on the interactions between patients and caregivers in an institution with multiple wards. }, } @Article{meyers05, author = {L. A. Meyers and B. Pourbohloul and M. E. J. Newman and Danuta M. Skowronski and Robert C. 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Aday}, title = {Understanding the context of healthcare utilization: assessing environmental and provider-related variables in the behavioral model of utilization.}, journal = {Health Services Research}, volume = {33}, number = {3 Pt. 1}, year = {1998}, pages = {571 - 596}, summary = {Examines effective ways to communicate information about moderate alcohol consumption and reduction in myocardial infarction risk to patients and physicians.}, } @TECHREPORT{phac07, author = "Public Health Agency of Canada", title = "HIV/AIDS Epi Updates, November 2007 ", institution = "Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada", year = 2007, } @TECHREPORT{phac09, author = "Centre for Disease Control and Prevention", title = "{{HIV/AIDS} Surveillance Report, 2007} ", volume = "19", institution = "Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention", address = "Atlanta, USA", year = 2009, } @article{phillips04, author = {Carl V. 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Assad}, booktitle = {Vehicle Routing: Methods and Studies}, title = {Dynamic vehicle routing problems}, publisher = {North-Holland}, year = {1988}, series = {Studies in Management Science and Systems}, volume = {16}, address = {Amsterdam}, pages = {223--248}, summary = {XXX}, } @article{puig98, Author = {Puig-Junoy, Jaume and Saez, Marc and Mart¡nez-Garc¡a, Esther}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {1}, Pages = {39 - 52}, Title = {Why do patients prefer hospital emergency visits? A nested multinomial logit analysis for patient-initiated contacts.}, Volume = {1}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Uses an extended discrete choice model to analyze the nature of health care provider choice in the case of patient-initiated contact. }, } %%%% QQQQQQQQ%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% RRRRRRRR%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{rahmandad04, type={Working Paper Series}, title={{Heterogeneity and Network Structure in the Dynamics of Diffusion: Comparing Agent-Based and Differential Equation Models}}, author={Rahmandad, Hazhir and Sterman, John }, journal={SSRN eLibrary}, year={2004}, publisher={SSRN}, keywords={Agent Based Models, Networks, Scale free, Small world, Heterogeneity, Epidemiology, Simulation, System Dynamics, Complex Adaptive Systems}, location={http://ssrn.com/paper=607302}, summary = {Compares agent-based and differential equation models, with examples of applications in epidemiology.}, } @inproceedings{RWRVWR09, author = "B.~Ramadanovi\'c and A.~van der Waall and A.R.~Rutherford and L.~Vertesi and Y.~Wang and I.~Rongve", title = "{Performance Metrics and Service Discipline in a System-Scale Model of Surgical Wait List}", booktitle = "{Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS)}", address = "Leuven, Belgium", month = "{July}", year = "2009", isbn = "978-9081409902" } @InProceedings{rego99, author = {Juan C. Rego}, title = {After 40 Years, has System Dynamics Changed?}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society,Wellington, New Zealand }, year = {1999}, organization = {System Dynamics Society}, summary = {Investigates two types of pressures exercised on System Dynamics, one of centripetal character and used in academics, the other of centrifugal character and used as a consultancy tool.}, } @Article{reid02, author = {Ian Reid}, title = {Complexity science. Let them eat complexity: the emperor's new toolkit}, journal = {The British Medical Journal}, year = {2002}, volume = {324}, pages = {171-172}, summary = {A response to the Plsek and Greenhalgh article regarding complexity in health care.}, } @Article{remis02, author = {Robert S. Remis}, title = {{HIV} incidence among injection drug users in {Vancouver}}, journal = {Canadian Medical Association Journal}, year = {2002}, volume = {166}, number = {7}, pages = {908-909}, summary = {Expands upon Patricia Spittal's article "Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence among female injection drug users in Vancouver"(CMAJ 2002:166:894-9), looks at the need for reassessing the current strategy for controlling HIV infection and suggests several ways to improve the current strategy.}, } @article{rhodes03, Author = {Rhodes, Mary Lee and MacKechnie, Geoffrey}, Journal = {Emergence}, Number = {4}, Pages = {57 - 85}, Title = {Understanding Public Service Systems: Is There a Role for Complex Adaptive Systems Theory?}, Volume = {5}, Year = {2003}, summary = {Investigates the potential application of complex adaptive systems frameworks to public service systems.}, } @Article{rhodes97, author = {Tim Rhodes}, title = {Risk theory in epidemic times: sex, drugs, and social organisation of `risk behaviour'}, journal = {Sociology of Health \& Illness}, volume = {19}, year = {1997}, pages = {208-27}, summary = {Examines two key developments in risk behaviour theory, rationality and social action theories, and how they relate to a drug users perception of their own risk for HIV. }, } @article{rice04, Author = {Rice, Dorothy P. and Fineman, Norman}, Journal = {Annual Review of Public Health}, Number = {1}, Pages = {457 - 473}, Title = {ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF INCREASED LONGEVITY IN THE UNITED STATES..}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Examines the potential economic and social implications of the increasing size of the elderly population.}, } @Article{robson01, author = {Arthur J. Robson}, title = {The Biological Basis of Economic Behaviour}, journal = {Journal of EConomic Literature}, volume = {39}, year = {2001}, pages = {11-33}, summary = {Considers the implications of biological evolution for economic processes, why utility functions evolved, how utility if both hedonic and adaptive, why such adaptations have evolved, and the evolution of rationality. }, } @Article{rockhill98, author = {Rockhill, B. and Newman, B. and Weinberg, C.}, title = {Use and Misuse of Population Attributable Fractions}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, volume = {88}, year = {1998}, pages = {15-19}, summary = {A commentary on the computational and conceptual issues faced by epidemiologists when dealing with population attributable fraction estimations.}, } @Article{rockhill96, author = {Rockhill, B. and Weinberg, C.}, title = {Error in Population Attributable Risk Calculation}, journal = {Epidemiology}, volume = {7}, year = {1996}, pages = {453}, summary = {Points out a potential error in calculating population attributable risk in Hahn's "Poverty and Death in the United States - 1973 and 1991" article}, } @article{rohleder07, Author = {Rohleder, Thomas and Bischak, Diane and Baskin, Leland}, Journal = {Health Care Management Science}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1 - 12}, Title = {Modeling patient service centers with simulation and system dynamics.}, Volume = {10}, Year = {2007}, summary = {Reports on the use of simulation modeling for redesigning specimen collection centers at a medical diagnostic laboratory. }, } @techreport{romanow02, author = {{Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada}}, title = {Building on values: The future of health care in {Canada}}, institution = {Health Canada}, year = {2002}, summary = {A report of 47 recommendations to reform the Canadian health care system. }, } @book {RTV06, AUTHOR = {Roos, C. and Terlaky, T. and Vial, J.-P.}, TITLE = {Interior point methods for linear optimization}, NOTE = {Second edition of {\it Theory and algorithms for linear optimization} [Wiley, Chichester, 1997; MR1450094]}, PUBLISHER = {Springer}, ADDRESS = {New York}, YEAR = {2006}, PAGES = {xxiv+497}, ISBN = {978-0387-26378-6; 0-387-26378-0}, MRCLASS = {90-02 (65Kxx 90C05 90C51)}, MRNUMBER = {MR2165049 (2006c:90002)}, } @Article{rosenthal81, author = {Robert W. Rosenthal}, title = {Games of Perfect Information, Predatory Pricing and the Chain-Store Paradox}, journal = {Journal of Economic Theory}, year = {1981}, volume = {25}, pages = {92-100}, summary = {Suggests that finite, noncooperative games possessing complete and perfect information ought to be treated as one-player decision problems.}, } @article{ross05, author = {Ross, Nancy}, title = {{Health, happiness, and higher levels of social organisation}}, journal = {J Epidemiol Community Health}, volume = {59}, number = {8}, pages = {614-618}, year = {2005}, summary = {A commentary on a paper by Subramanian and colleagues ( J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:664-9) that looks at the socioeconomic determinants of self-rated health}, } @techreport{rossi02, author = {Carla Rossi}, title = {Time trends and incidence of problem drug use}, Year = {2002}, institution = {European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction}, summary = {Investigates several aspects of drug use in Europe using various modeling methods.}, } @Article{rossi04, author = {Carla Rossi}, title = {Operational models for epidemics of problematic drug use: the {Mover-Stayer} approach to heterogeneity}, journal = {Socio-Economic Planing Sciences}, year = {2004}, volume = {38}, pages = {73-90}, summary = {Presents a modified susceptibles-infectives-removed (SIR) model that accounts for the possible heterogeneous behaviours of susceptibles when modelling the HIV-AIDS epidemic. }, } @article{roter04, Author = {Roter, Debra L. and Hall, Judith A.}, Journal = {Annual Review of Public Health}, Number = {1}, Pages = {497 - 519}, Title = {PHYSICIAN GENDER AND PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION: A Critical Review of Empirical Research.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2004}, summary = {Investigates physician gender as a possible source of variation in the interpersonal aspects of medical practice.}, } @article{rowland90, author = {Rowland, ML}, title = {{Self-reported weight and height}}, journal = {Am J Clin Nutr}, volume = {52}, number = {6}, pages = {1125-1133}, year = {1990}, summary = {Looks at the error in self-reported height and weight compared to actual measured values.}, } @Article{royston99, author = {Geoff Royston and Ayesha Dost and Jeremy Townshend and Howard Turner}, title = {Using system dynamics to help develop and implement policies and programmes in health care in {England}}, journal = {System Dynamics Review}, year = {1999}, volume = {15}, number = {3}, pages = {293-313}, summary = {Outlines the use of system dynamics modelling in several areas of health care policy and program development and implementation, as well as applications in disease screening and development of emergency care. }, } %%%% SSSSSSSSSSS%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{saaty03, Author = {Saaty, Thomas L. and Vargas, Luis G. and Dellmann, Klaus}, Journal = {Socio-Economic Planning Sciences}, Keywords = {Intangible resources; Resource allocation; Analytic hierarchy process; Priorities; Relative measurement}, Number = {3}, Pages = {169--184}, Title = {The allocation of intangible resources: the analytic hierarchy process and linear programming}, Volume = {37}, Year = {2003}, summary = {Looks at incorporating intangibles in mathematical models of resource allocation. }, } @article{sadegh00, Author = {Sadegh-Zadeh, Kazem}, Journal = {Journal of Medicine & Philosophy}, Number = {5}, Pages = {605 - 638}, Title = {Fuzzy Health, Illness, and Disease.}, Volume = {25}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Proposes a recursive scheme for defining disease that supports the concept of fuzzy disease. }, } @inproceedings{sadowski04, author = {Deborah A. Sadowski}, title = {TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE OF SIMULATION}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters,}, year = {2004}, pages = {61 - 66}, summary = {Explores common pitfalls encountered when performing simulation studies and suggests approaches for avoiding these problems.}, } @inproceedings{samaha03, auhtor = {Simon Samaha}, title = {THE USE OF SIMULATION TO REDUCE THE LENGTH OF STAY IN AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT}, year = {2003}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {S. Chick and P. J. S nchez and D. Ferrin and D. J. Morrice,}, pages = {1907 - 1911}, summary = {Presents a simulation model of an emergency department to depict current operations and possible alternatives to reduce the length of stay. }, } @unpublished{sanmartin, title = {Acceptable Waiting Times for Medical Services: A review pf the evidence and proposed methods}, author = {Claudia Sanmartin}, note = {A Working Paper prepared for the Western Canada Wait List Project}, summary = {Explores the issues and methods related to developing acceptable waiting times for selected medical services in Canada.}, } @article{sanmartin00, Author = {Sanmartin,, Claudia and Shortt,, Samuel E.D. and Barer,, Morris L. and Sheps,, Sam and Lewis,, Steven and McDonald, Paul W.}, Journal = {CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal}, Number = {9}, Pages = {1305 - 1310}, Title = {Waiting for medical services in Canada: lots of heat, but little light.}, Volume = {162}, Year = {2000}, summary = {Looks at the decline in Canadians' approval of their health care system, the reasons behind these declines and why these perceptions may hamper progress in the health care area.}, } @Article{santossilva01, author = {Joao M. C. {Santos Silva} and Frank Windmeijer}, title = {Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand}, journal = {Journal of Econometrics}, year = {2001}, volume = {104}, pages = {67-89}, summary = {Studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving both the individual and health care providers decisions and the effect on the demand for care services.}, } @inproceedings{sargent04, title = {VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION OF SIMULATION MODELS}, author = {Robert G. Sargent}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, year = {2004}, pages = {17 - 28}, summary = {Discusses validation and verification of simulation models and presents a recommended procedure for model validation. }, } @Article{sarma06, author = {Sisira Sarma and Wayne Simpson}, title = {A microeconometric analysis of {Canadian} health care utilization}, journal = {Health Economics}, year = {2006}, volume = {15}, pages = {219-239}, summary = {Studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes in health care services, the decisions of the individual and the health care provider, using only count data on the total demand}, } @Article{savel95, author = {M. W. P.~Savelsbergh and M.~Sol}, title = {The general pickup and delivery problem}, journal = {Transportation Science}, year = {1995}, volume = {29}, pages = {17-29}, summary = {Discusses characteristics that separate pickup and delivery problems from standard vehicle routing problems as well as problem types and solution methods.}, } @Article{schellhorn00, author = {Martin Schellhorn and Andreas E. Stuck and Christoph E. Minder and John C. Beck}, title = {Health services utilization of elderly {Swiss}: Evidence from panel data}, journal = {Econometrics and Health Economics}, year = {2000}, volume = { 9}, pages = {533-545}, summary = {Estimates the determinants of the demand for physician visits by the elderly, including the impact of a disability prevention intervention. }, } @Article{schellhorn01, author = {Martin Schellhorn}, title = {The effect of variable health insurance deductibles on the demand for physician visits}, journal = {Health Economics}, volume = {10}, number = {5}, pages = {441-456}, year = {2001}, summary = {Applies a generalized method of moments to estimate the effect of introducing variable health insurance deductibles on physician service utilization. }, } @inproceedings{schriber04, title = {Inside discrete-event simulation software}, author = {Thomas J. Schriber}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {R .G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, year = {2004}, pages = {142 - 152}, summary = {Provides an overview of how simulation software works.}, } @book {schrijver86, AUTHOR = {Schrijver, Alexander}, TITLE = {Theory of linear and integer programming}, SERIES = {Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics}, NOTE = {A Wiley-Interscience Publication}, PUBLISHER = {John Wiley \& Sons Ltd.}, ADDRESS = {Chichester}, YEAR = {1986}, PAGES = {xii+471}, ISBN = {0-471-90854-1}, MRCLASS = {90C05 (90C10)}, MRNUMBER = {MR874114 (88m:90090)}, MRREVIEWER = {J{\"u}rgen K{\"o}hler}, } @inproceedings{seila04, title = {Spreadsheet simulation }, author = {Andrew F. Seila}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference}, editor = {R. G. Ingalls and M. D. Rossetti and J. S. Smith and B. A. Peters}, year = {2004}, pages = {41 - 48}, summary = {Examines the use of "spreadsheet simulation" as a platform for representing simulation models and performing simulation experiments. }, } @article{selden98, Author = {Selden, Thomas M.}, Journal = {Journal of Risk & Uncertainty}, Number = {2}, Pages = {167 - 179}, Title = {Risk Adjustment for Health Insurance: Theory and Implications.}, Volume = {17}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Explores the potential use of welfare-improving public risk adjustment in helath insurance markets.}, } @Article{sethna01, author = {James P. Sethna and Karin A. Dahmen and Christopher R. Myers}, title = {Crackling Noise}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {410}, year = {2001}, pages = {241-250}, summary = {Investigates crackling noise in systems using a model of crackling noise in magnets and explains the use of the renormalization group and scaling collapses.}, } @Unpublished{sethna05, author = {James P. Sethna and Karin A. 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Peixoto}, booktitle = {Dynamical Systems}, year = {1973}, publisher = {Academic Press}, pages = {531-544}, summary = {XXX}, } @Article{smale74a, author = {Steve Smale}, title = {Global Analysis and Economics, {IIA}}, journal = {J. Math. Econ.}, year = {1974}, volume = {1}, pages = {1-14}, summary = {A revision and extension of the author's paper (1972) that investigates a Debreu theorem with the goal of removing the need for any well-defined demand functions}, } @Article{smale74b, author = {Steve Smale}, title = {Global Analysis and Economics, {III}: Pareto Optima and price equilibria}, journal = {J. Math. Econ.}, year = {1974}, volume = {1}, pages = {107-117}, summary = {Proves a global version of the fundamental theorem of welfare economics.}, } @Article{smale74c, author = {Steve Smale}, title = {Global Analysis and Economics, {IV}: Finiteness and stability of equilibria with general consumption sets and production}, journal = {J. Math. Econ.}, year = {1974}, volume = {1}, pages = {191-127}, summary = {Proves that under generic conditions, economies contain only a finite number of price equilibria when consumption sets are permitted to contain zero amounts of certain commodities in the context of Debreu's work on economics with a finite number of price equilibria. }, } @Article{smale74d, author = {Steve Smale}, title = {Global Analysis and Economics, {V}: Pareto theory with constraints}, journal = {J. Math. Econ.}, year = {1974}, volume = {1}, pages = {213-221}, summary = {Considers the problem of optimizing several functions subject to constraints defined by inequalities, emphasizing calculus and ignoring convexity.}, } @Article{smale76, author = {Steve Smale}, title = {Global Analysis and Economics, {VI}: Geometric analysis of Parieto Optima and price equilibria under classical hypotheses}, journal = {J. Math. 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Woodham-Smith}, title = {Florence Nightingale}, publisher = {McGraw-Hill}, year = {1951}, address = {New York}, summary = {A biography of Florence Nightingale.}, } @article{sornette98, Author = {Sornette, Didier and Johansen, Anders}, Journal = {Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics}, Number = {3-4}, Pages = {581--598}, Title = {A hierarchical model of financial crashes}, Volume = {261}, Year = {1998}, summary = {Presents a hierarchical model of large stock market crashes. }, } @Misc{statscan99, key = {Health Canada}, title = {Statistical Report on the Health of {Canadians}}, note = {Prepared by Health Canada, Statistics Canada, and The Canadian Institute for Health Information.}, year = {1999}, summary = {A comprehensive overview of the health status of Canadians, as well as the determinants of this health status.}, } @TECHREPORT{statsoft97, author = "StatSoft, Inc.", title = "Electronic Statistics Textbook", institution = "StatSft, inc.", address = "Tulsa, OK", year = {1997}, summary = {WEB: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html.}, } @Article{stein91, author = {J. 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Sterman}, title = {Learning from evidence in a complex world}, journal = {American Journal of Public Health}, year = {2006}, volume = {96}, pages = {505-514}, summary = {Looks at how systems thinking and modelling can enhance the ability to generate and learn from evidence and use this in promoting effective changes in public health policy.}, } @Incollection{sterman91, author = {John D. Sterman}, editor = {G. O. Barney and W. B. Kreutzer and M. J. Garrett}, booktitle = {Managing a Nation: The Microcomputer Software Catalog}, title = {A Skeptic's Guide to Computer Models}, publisher = {Westview Press}, year = {1991}, summary = {Offers information to model consumers about frameworks used in forecast and policy analysis, a well as the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, uses and misuses of these models.}, } @Article{stigler81, author = {Stephen M. Stigler}, title = {Gauss and the invention of least squares }, journal = {The Annals of Statistics}, year = {1981}, volume = {9}, pages = {465-474}, summary = {Investigates whether Gauss or Legendre discovered the method of least squares first.}, } @Article{stoker86, author = {Thomas M. Stoker}, title = {Simple Tests of Distributional Effects on Macroeconomic Equations}, journal = {The Journal of Political Economy}, year = {1986}, volume = {94}, number = {4}, pages = {763-795}, summary = {Demonstrates that a static model that accomodates individual heterogeneity is statistically equivalent to a simple dynamic model accomodating fist-order autocorrelation in macroeconomics.}, } @article{stoddart99, Author = {Stoddart, Greg L. and Barer, Morris L.}, Journal = {CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal}, Pages = {983 - 984}, Title = {Will increasing medical school enrolment solve Canada's physician supply problems?}, Volume = {8}, Year = {1999}, summary = {Investigates the reasons for physician shortages and whether increasing medical school enrollment will solve this shortage.}, } @article{street96, Author = {Street, Andrew and Duckett, Stephen}, Journal = {Health Policy}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1--15}, Title = {Are waiting lists inevitable?}, Volume = {36}, Year = {1996}, summary = {Discusses how supply has been addressed in Victoria by changing the financial incentives in hospitals and the consequent reductions in waiting lists. }, } @Book{Strogatz94, author = {S. H. Strogatz}, title = {Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, with applications to physics, biology, chemistry and engineering}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, year = {1994}, summary = {An introduction to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, stressing applications, analytical methods, concrete examples and geometric intuition. }, } @Book{studenmund87, author = {A. H. Studenmund and Henry J. Cassidy}, title = {Using Econometrics: A practical guide}, publisher = {Little, Brown and Company}, year = {1987}, summary = {Covers single-equation linear regression analysis with an emphasis on real-world examples.}, } %%%% TTTTTTTTTT%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @Article{tabar01, author = {L. Tab\'ar and B. Vitak and H-H. T. Chen and M-F. Yen and S. W. Duffy and R. A. Smith}, title = {Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials: Organized Mammographic Screening Substantially Reduces Breast Carcinoma Mortality}, journal = {Cancer}, year = {2001}, volume ={91}, number = {9}, pages ={1724--1731}, } @InProceedings{tako06, author = {Antuela Tako and Stewart Robinson}, title = {Towards an empirical comparison of discrete-event simulation and system dynamics in the supply chain context}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop, 28-29 March, 2006}, year = {2006}, organization = {UK Operational Research Society}, editor = {J. Garnett, S. Brailsford, S. Robinson and S. Taylor}, summary = {Looks at discrete-event simulation and system dynamics in the context of supply chain.}, } @Conference{tamiz06, author = {M. Tamiz}, title = {Efficient resource planning for medical assessment unit using simulation and goal programming}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {Develops a detailed simulation model to monitor the flow of patients through the Medical Assessment Unit at QA hospital in Portsmouth. }, } @Article{tan94, author = {Y. W. Tan}, title = {First passage probability distributions in {Markov} models and the {HIV} incubation distribution under treatment}, journal = {Mathematical and Computer Modelling}, year = {1994}, volume = {19}, number = {11}, pages = {53-66}, summary = {Derives exact HIV incubation distributions under treatment by anti-viral drugs based on first passage probability distributions for some continuous time Markov chains. }, } @Article{tarrant04, author = {C. Tarrant and T. Stokes and A. M. Colman}, title = {Models of the medical consultation: opportunities and limitations of a game theory perspective}, journal = {Quality and Safety in Health Care}, year = {2004}, volume = {13}, pages = {461 - 466}, summary = {Investigates game theory for use in providing models for interactive decision-making in the medical consultation process.}, } @Book{Thom93, author = {Ren\'e Thom}, title = {Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, year = {1993}, address = {Reading, MA}, summary = {Discusses how the concept of structural stability could potentially be applied to the life sciences.}, } @article{thompson92, author = {Kimberly M. Thompson, David E. Burmaster, Edmund A.C. Crouch}, title = {Monte Carlo Techniques for Quantitative Uncertainty Analysis in Public Health Risk Assessments}, journal = {Risk Analysis}, volume = {12}, number = {1}, pages = {53 - 63}, year = {1992}, summary = {Describes a methodology for extended uncertainty analysis in public health risk assessments involving Monte Carlo techniques.}, } @Conference{thomp06, author = {S. Thompson}, title = {A decision support system for optimal patient and staff allocation in a hospital}, booktitle = {INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Optimization and Health Care}, month = {February 3-5}, year = {2006}, address = {San Antonio, Texas}, summary = {The development of a decision support system to provide hospital bed managers with recommendations on where to assign or transfer new patients and staff.}, } @book{toth02, editor = {P. Toth and D. 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