ReviewPreventing chronic disease2016
Agent-Based Modeling of Chronic Diseases: A Narrative Review and Future Research Directions.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Behavioral Dynamics of AI Trust and Health Care Delays Among Adults: Integrated Cross-Sectional Survey and Agent-Based Modeling Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Digital and AI-Empowered Health Elements: An Integrated Pathway to Advancing Health.Health data science · 2026Article
- Assessing the effects of social media based anti-tobacco campaigns on tobacco use among youth in Virginia: an agent-based simulation approach.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- The Role of Mathematical Modelling in Predicting and Controlling Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Underserved Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Public health challenges · 2025Review
- Leveraging agent-based modeling and a randomized intervention to advance childhood physical activity: A study protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Enhancing Clinical Validation for Early Cardiovascular Disease Prediction through Simulation, AI, and Web Technology.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The forecasted prevalence of comorbidities and multimorbidity in people with HIV in the United States through the year 2030: A modeling study.PLoS medicine · 2024Article
- The long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions; how can we model behavior? A review.Health economics · 2023Review
- Applications of agent-based modeling in trauma research.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Article
- Understanding Misimplementation in U.S. State Health Departments: An Agent-Based Model.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Agent-based modeling of urban exposome interventions: prospects, model architectures, and methodological challenges.Exposome · 2022Article
- Patient Navigation Can Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes among African American Women in Chicago: Insights from a Modeling Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
- The Impact of Expanding Telehealth-Delivered Dietary Interventions on Long-Term Cardiometabolic Health.Population health management · 2022Article
- Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Evaluating scenarios for school reopening under COVID19.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Participatory Methods for Systems Modeling of Youth Mental Health: Implementation Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
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Abstract
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of chronic disease. As the US population ages, health care providers and policy makers urgently need decision models that provide systematic, credible prediction regarding the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases to improve population health management and medical decision-making. Agent-based modeling is a promising systems science approach that can model complex interactions and processes related to chronic health conditions, such as adaptive behaviors, feedback loops, and contextual effects. This article introduces agent-based modeling by providing a narrative review of agent-based models of chronic disease and identifying the characteristics of various chronic health conditions that must be taken into account to build effective clinical- and policy-relevant models. We also identify barriers to adopting agent-based models to study chronic diseases. Finally, we discuss future research directions of agent-based modeling applied to problems related to specific chronic health conditions.
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