Currently, population health science is an integral part of global academic curricula. For over a century, the principles of the reductionist paradigm have guided population health curricula, training, research, and action. Researchers continue to draw upon these principles when theorizing, conceptualizing, designing studies, analyzing, and devising interventions to tackle complex population health problems. However, unresolved impasses in addressing pressing population health challenges have catalyzed calls for the integration of complex-systems-science-grounded approaches into population health science. Mounting evidence denotes that a complex systems paradigm can bring about dramatic, multipronged changes for education and training, and lead to innovative research, interventions, and policies. Despite the large and untapped promise of complex systems, the haphazard knowledge base from which academics, researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners can draw has slowed their integration into the population health sciences. This volume fulfils this growing need by providing the knowledge base necessary to introduce a holistic complex systems paradigm in population health science. As such, it is the first comprehensive book in population health science that meaningfully integrates complex systems theory, methodology, modeling, computational simulation, and real-world applications, while incorporating current population health theoretical, methodological and analytical perspectives. It is intended as a programmatic primer across a broad spectrum of population health stakeholders: from university professors and graduate students, to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

About the Author
Yorghos Apostolopoulos is Associate Professor of Population Health and Founding Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group at Texas A&M University. Kristen Hassmiller Lich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michael Kenneth Lemke is Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Houston-Downtown in Houston, Texas, and Associate Director of the Complexity & Computational Population Health Group at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Reviews
The book is skillfully organized by the authors in way that moves the reader from simple to more complex and general to more specific considerations of the complex systems framework. The reader is afforded clear, concrete opportunities to explore population health science from the multifaceted system level lens versus a single cause perspective. * Susan M Thul, DNP, APRN, CNM (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Doody's Reviews *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190880743
Author Yorghos Apostolopoulos
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 476g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm