SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Commonly cited approaches to reducing health inequalities: a call for more clarity around their definition and underlying assumptions.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2026Review
- Evidence-based construction and validation of an agent-based model of community integrated care for older adults living with dementia.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Evaluation of economic strengthening in South Africa and its impact on HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and teenage births: A modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
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- Explaining "U-shaped" distributions of population substance use with a simple computational approach.Journal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSS · 2025Article
- The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Action against inequalities: a synthesis of social justice & equity, diversity, inclusion frameworks.International journal for equity in health · 2024Review
- The current state of complex systems research on socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behavior-a systematic scoping review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
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Abstract
There is an increasing focus on the role of complexity in public health and public policy fields which has brought about a methodological shift towards computational approaches. This includes agent-based modelling (ABM), a method used to simulate individuals, their behaviour and interactions with each other, and their social and physical environment. This paper aims to systematically review the use of ABM to simulate the generation or persistence of health inequalities. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (1 January 2013-15 November 2022) were searched, supplemented with manual reference list searching. Twenty studies were included; fourteen of them described models of health behaviours, most commonly relating to diet (
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