Health system modelling for policy development and evaluation: Using qualitative methods to capture the whole-system perspective

Operations Research for Health Care

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-26

  Esensoy, Ali Vahit ^a   Carter, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative modelling; Health policy; Patient flow; Simulation; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921038622     PISSN: 22116923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orhc.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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