Resilience, tipping, and hydra effects in public health: emergent collective behavior in two agent-based models

Abstract Background Collective health behavior often demonstrates counter-intuitive dynamics, sometimes resisting interventions designed to produce change, or even producing effects that are in the opposite direction than intended by the intervention, e.g. lowering infectivity resulting in increased...

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Main Author: Christopher Robert Keane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-03-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-016-2938-8