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Making the invisible visible: Using a qualitative system dynamics model to map disparities in cumulative environmental stressors and children’s neurodevelopment
Payne-Sturges, DP.; Ballard, E.; Cory-Slechta, DA.; Thomas, SB.; Hovmand, PS. (2023)
Making the invisible visible: Using a qualitative system dynamics model to map disparities in cumulative environmental stressors and children's neurodevelopment. Environmental Research, 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115295.
1.01 Systems Thinking Iceberg: Diving Beneath the Surface in Education Systems
The purpose of this brief
1.01 Systems Thinking Iceberg: Diving Beneath the Surface in Education Systems
This purpose of this brief is to unpack the Systems Thinking Iceberg as a way to organize reflection and dialogue about systemic challenges in education.
1.02 Characteristics of Complex Problems
The purpose of this brief is to share (some) characteristics of complex problems, and introduce system dynamics as a set of tools for managing this complexity.
1.03 Mental Models
The purpose of this brief is to introduce the concept of mental models, and to discuss how system dynamics tools can be used to elicit, negotiate, and transform them.
1.04 Framing Dynamic Problems
The purpose of this brief is to help the reader recognize problems as dynamic or changing over time, and to present this thinking using graphical tools such as reference modes.
1.05 Understanding Systems from a Feedback Perspective
The purpose of this brief is to introduce the concept of feedback thinking through the lens of challenges in K-12 education, and present Causal Loop Diagrams as tools to describe feedback relationships between components of a system
1.06 Accumulations
The purpose of this brief is to describe how the concept of accumulation can help us understand system behavior and to introduce how stock and flow diagrams can be used to help us model problems and find solutions in K-12 education.
1.07 System Archetypes
The purpose of this brief is to describe how education stakeholders can use system archetypes as a tool for recognizing, anticipating, and addressing the system dynamics driving the common patterns of problems in their school communities.
1.08 Iceberg del Pensamiento Sistémico: Buceando Bajo la Superficie
El propósito de este breve documento es explicar el iceberg del pensamiento sistémico como una forma deorganizar la reflexión y el diálogo sobre los desafíos sistémicos en los sistemas alimentarios en relación conla salud.
1.09 Definición de la Dinámica de Problemas
El propósito de este breve documento es ayudar al lector a reconocer los problemas como dinámicos o cambiantes a lo largo del tiempo, y aplicar este pensamiento utilizando herramientas gráficas como los modos de referencia
1.10 Modelos Mentales
El propósito de este breve documento es introducir el concepto de modelos mentales y discutir cómo las herramientas de dinámica de sistemas se pueden usar para identificarlos, negociarlos y transformarlos.
1.11 Acumulaciones y Diagramas de Niveles y Flujos
El propósito de este breve documento es describir el concepto de las acumulaciones y su utilidad para ayudarnos a comprender el comportamiento del sistema, y mostrarnos la forma en que los diagramas de niveles y flujos pueden ser utilizados para ayudarnos a modelar problemas y encontrar soluciones en el sistema alimentario y de salud.
2.01 Online GMB: Challenges, Opportunities, and Barriers
The purpose of this brief is to provide some general points of comparison between in-person and online group model building and introduce challenges and opportunities that practitioners in the SSDL have faced when translating workshops to online spaces.
2.02 An Overview of Platforms to Support Online GMB
The purpose of this brief is to review a number of online platforms that group model building practitioners have used since the rise of remote work, and to suggest promising combinations for groups who are hoping to implement their own online system dynamics work.
2.03 Facilitation Team Roles in Online GMB
The purpose of this brief is to compare facilitation team roles in traditional, in-person GMB sessions with those in online GMB sessions, shedding particular light on how the realities of online platforms shift what tools facilitators have at their disposal when engaging a group of participants.
A community-based system dynamics approach suggests solutions for improving healthy food access in a low-income urban environment
Mui Y, Ballard E, Lopatin E, Thornton RLJ, Pollack Porter K, Gittelsohn J. (2019) A community-based system dynamics approach suggests solutions for improving healthy food access in a low-income urban environment. PLOS ONE 14(5): e0216985. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216985.
A Novel System Dynamics Model of Female Obesity and Fertility
Nasim S. Sabounchi, Peter S. Hovmand, Nathaniel D.Osgood, Roland F. Dyck, Emily S. Jungheim, “A Novel System Dynamics Model of Female Obesity and Fertility”, American Journal of Public Health 104, no. 7 (July 1, 2014): pp. 1240-1246. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301898
A participatory model of the paradox of primary care
Homa, L., Rose, J., Hovmand, P.S., Cherng, S.T., Riolo, R.L., Kraus, A.,…Williams, C. (2015). A participatory model of the paradox of primary care. Annals of Family Medicine, 13(5), 456-465.
A systematic review of system dynamics and agent-based obesity models: Evaluating obesity as part of the global syndemic.
Morshed, A.B.; Kasman, M; Heuberger, B.; Hammond, R.A.; & Hovmand, P.S. 2019. A systematic review of system dynamics and agent-based obesity models: Evaluating obesity as part of the global syndemic. Obesity Reviews, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/obr.12877
Application of systems dynamics and group model building to identify barriers and facilitators to acute care delivery in a resource limited setting
Muttalib, F., Ballard, E., Langton, J. et al. Application of systems dynamics and group model building to identify barriers and facilitators to acute care delivery in a resource limited setting. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-06014-7
Applying systems science to evaluate a community – based social marketing innovation: A case study
Biroscak, B. J., Schneider, T., Panzera, A. D., Bryant, C. A., McDermott, R. J., Mayer, A. B., . . . Hovmand, P. S. (2014). Applying systems science to evaluate a community - based social marketing innovation: A case study. Social Marketing Quarterly, 20(4), 247-267. 10.1177/1524500414556649
Best fitting-prediction equations for basal metabolic rate: informing obesity interventions in diverse populations
Sabounchi, N.S. & Rahmandad, H. (2013). Best fitting-prediction equations for basal metabolic rate: informing obesity interventions in diverse populations. International Journal of Obesity, 37(10):1364-70. doi:10.1038/ijo.2012.218
Boundary objects for participatory group model building of agent-based models
Rose, J., Homa, L., Hovmand, P., Kraus, A., Burgess, K., Biswas, A., . . . Stange, K. C. (2015). Boundary objects for participatory group model building of agent-based models. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, , 2015-March 2950-2959. 10.1109/HICSS.2015.357
Boundary objects in translation: the role of language in participatory system dynamics modeling
Ballard, E., Werner, K. and Priyadarshini, P. (2021), Boundary objects in translation: the role of language in participatory system dynamics modeling. Syst. Dyn. Rev., 37: 310-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/sdr.1694
Capability Traps Impeding Homeless Services: A Community-Based System Dynamics Evaluation
Patrick J. Fowler, Kenneth Wright, Katherine E. Marcal, Ellis Ballard & Peter S. Hovmand (2019) Capability Traps Impeding Homeless Services: A Community- Based System Dynamics Evaluation, Journal of Social Service Research, 45:3, 348-359, DOI: 10.1080/01488376.2018.1480560
Combining Community-Engaged Research with Group Model Building to Address Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality and Treatment
Williams F, Colditz GA, Hovmand P, Gehlert S. (2018). Combining Community-Engaged Research with Group Model Building to Address Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality and Treatment. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 11(1).
Community Based System Dynamics
Hovmand, Peter S. 2013. Community Based System Dynamics. Springer, New York.
Community Based System Dynamics introduces researchers and practitioners to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities.
Community based system dynamics as an approach for understanding and acting on messy problems: A case study for global mental health intervention in Afghanistan
Trani, J.-F., Ballard, E., Bakhshi, P., & Hovmand, P. (2016). Community based system dynamic as an approach for understanding and acting on messy problems: A case study for global mental health intervention in Afghanistan. Conflict and Health, 10, 25.
Community‐Based System Dynamics for Mobilizing Communities to Advance School Health
Conceptualizing productive engagement in a system dynamics framework
Morrow-Howell, N., Halvorsen, C.J., Hovmand, P., Lee, C., Ballard, E. (2017). Conceptualizing productive engagement in a system dynamics framework. Innovation in Aging, 1(1).
Creative Learning Exchange
Creative Learning Exchange works to develop Systems Citizens in K-12 education who use systems thinking and system dynamics
Defining and Intervening on Cumulative Environmental Neurodevelopmental Risks: Introducing a Complex Systems Approach
Developing a Socioculturally Nuanced Systems Model of Childhood Obesity in Manhattan’s Chinese American Community via Group Model Building
Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion
Yadama GN & Katzman M. 2013. Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Impoverished. Oxford University Press, New York.
Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion examines the complex nexus of issues at play in the developing world’s use of crude cookstoves– factors such as poverty, energy, environment, and gender inequality. Dr. Yadama is a long time partner of the SSDL and a co-instructor with Dr. Hovmand in the annual Winter Institute in India.
First eight years: a case study of starting a social system design lab
Hovmand, P.S. (2017). First eight years: a case study of starting a social system design lab. System Dynamics Review, 33.
Group model building “scripts” as a collaborative tool
Hovmand, P. S., Andersen, D. F., Rouwette, E., Richardson, G. P., Rux, K., & Calhoun, A. (2012). Group model building “scripts” as a collaborative tool. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 29, 179-193.
Housing and child welfare: Emerging evidence and implications for scaling up services
Fowler, P.J., Farrell, A.F., Marcal, K.E., Chung, S., & Hovmand, P.S. (2017). Housing and child welfare: Emerging evidence and implications for scaling up services. American Journal of Community Psychology, 60(1-2), 134-144.