Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review.

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 (n = 7). Six models explored health outcomes, e.g., morbidity, mor

SUBMITTER: Boyd J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9779847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature