Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, David R.
• Wills, Robert W.
• Woodruff, Kimberly A.

Titel

Epidemiology’s Adoption of System Dynamics is a Natural Extension of Population Thinking

Ist Teil von

• The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice, 2022-07, Vol.38 (2), p.245-259

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Epidemiologists have adopted systems thinking as an approach to understanding why health conditions occur in animal populations beyond the knowledge of simple linear relationships. Beef production systems are complex adaptive systems and decisions and policies throughout the system can positively or negatively affect the health of cattle. Those decisions may occur far removed in time or place from the health event and may be logical in the context of other factors in the system. Causal loop diagrams and stock and flow models are tools for sharing and testing thoughts about the ways systems might behave.