The dynamic influence of human resources on evidence-based intervention sustainability and population outcomes: an agent-based modeling approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sustaining evidence-based interventions (EBIs) is an ongoing challenge for dissemination and implementation science in public health and social services. Characterizing the relationship among human resource capacity within an agency and subsequent population outcomes is an important step to improving our understanding of how EBIs are sustained. Although human resource capacity and population outcomes are theoretically related, examining them over time within real-world experiments is difficult. Simulation approaches, especially agent-based models, offer advantages that complement existing methods.

Methods

We used an agent-based model to examine the relationships among human resources, EBI delivery, and population outcomes by simulating provision of an EBI through

SUBMITTER: McKay VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5987464 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature