Comparative Analysis of Financial Flows in the Healthcare Systems of Germany, Austria and Czechia: Opportunities for Savings and Assessing the Tax-Like Nature of Health Insurance C... by Mini, Patrick

“…Originality/value: By dissecting the healthcare financial flows in Germany, Austria, and Czechia, this study offers a nuanced understanding of their systems' dynamics and identifies opportunities for cross-border learning to inform global healthcare policy reform. …”
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Systems science and systems thinking for public health: a systematic review of the field by Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Eleanor Malbon, Nicole Carey, Andrew Joyce, Alan Carey

“…The assessment of data quality was intrinsic to the goals of the review itself, and therefore, was carried out as part of the analysis.Results 4 categories of research were identified from the review, ranging from editorial and commentary pieces to complex system dynamic modelling. Our analysis of each of these categories of research highlighted areas of potential for systems science to strengthen public health efforts, while also revealing a number of limitations in the dynamic systems modelling being carried out in public health.Conclusions There is a great deal of interest in how the application of systems concepts and approach might aid public health. …”
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Energy-space random walk in a driven disordered Bose gas by Zhang, Yansheng, Martirosyan, Gevorg, Ho, Christopher Junhong, Etrych, Jiří, Eigen, Christoph, Hadzibabic, Zoran

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A novel detection method for warhead fragment targets in optical images under dynamic strong interference environments by Guoyi Zhang, Hongxiang Zhang, Zhihua Shen, Deren Kong, Chenhao Ning, Fei Shang, Xiaohu Zhang

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Realist evaluation of the impact of the research translation process on health system sustainability: a study protocol by Yvonne Zurynski, Delia Hendrie, Suzanne Robinson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Abby Mosedale

“…Across the three phases, analysis of data from documents about the research translation program and interviews and focus groups with stakeholders and program users will draw on the context (C), mechanism (M), outcome (O) formula that is core to realist evaluation. In addition, system dynamic methods will capture the feedback loops and complex relationships among the IPT and context-mechanism-outcome configurations. …”
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Involving national stakeholders in a systems approach to map drivers of childhood obesity and actions to prevent childhood obesity in Denmark: the Generation Healthy Kids Study by Knud Ryom, Paul Bloch, Ulla Toft, Didde Høeg, Louise T. Thomsen, Steven Allender, Harry Rutter, Adrian Bauman, Rikke Fredenslund Krølner, Anders Blædel Gottlieb Hansen

“…We used a scripted approach inspired by group model building and community-based systems dynamics methods to engage stakeholders, collect and visualize their knowledge on childhood obesity, create consensus on the drivers of childhood health, identify local and national intervention opportunities for prevention of childhood obesity and develop actions to create system changes. …”
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