TY - BOOK ID - 4862894 TI - Place and Health as Complex Systems : A Case Study and Empirical Test AU - Castellani, Brian. AU - Rajaram, Rajeev. AU - Buckwalter, J. Galen. AU - Ball, Michael. AU - Hafferty, Frederic. PY - 2015 SN - 9783319097343 3319097334 9783319097336 3319097342 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Public Health. KW - Complexity. KW - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. KW - Human Geography. KW - Medicine. KW - Public health. KW - Physics. KW - Engineering. KW - Médecine KW - Santé publique KW - Physique KW - Ingénierie KW - Public health -- Research -- Methodology. KW - Public health -- Research. KW - Public Health KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Public Health - General KW - Public health KW - Research. KW - Research KW - Methodology. KW - Public health research KW - Statistical physics. KW - Dynamical systems. KW - Complexity, Computational. KW - Human geography. KW - Complex Systems. KW - Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. KW - Physics KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Statistical methods KW - Computational complexity. KW - Dynamical systems KW - Kinetics KW - Mathematics KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Force and energy KW - Mechanics KW - Statics KW - Complexity, Computational KW - Electronic data processing KW - Machine theory KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4862894 AB - The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its use in for designing and implementing interventions. This brief resource reviews the defining characteristics of places as dynamic and evolving social systems, rigorously testing them as well as the COP approach itself. The study, of twenty communities within one county in the Midwest, combines case-based methods and complexity science to determine whether COP improves upon traditional statistical methods of public health research. Its conclusions reveal strengths and limitations of the approach, immediate possibilities for its use, and challenges regarding future research. Included in the coverage: Characteristics of places and the complexities of place approach. The Definitional Test of Complex Systems. Case-based modeling using the SACS toolkit. Methods, maps, and measures used in the study. Places as nodes within larger networks. Places as power-based conflicted negotiations. Place and Health as Complex Systems brings COP into greater prominence in public health research, and is also valuable to researchers in related fields such as demography, health geography, community health, urban planning, and epidemiology. . ER -