The 2011 System Dynamics Applications Award: Citation for the winner: 'Prevention Impacts Simulation Model (PRISM) for Chronic Disease Policymaking'

摘要

This year, we take great pleasure in presenting the Society's third "Applications Award." In addition to myself, Jim Lyneis, the awards committee consists of Brad Morrison, Mark Paich, Eric Wolstenholme, and Erich Zahn. As many of you will remember, our prior two award winners have been in the "business" world - Mark Paich, Nick Pudar and team for the General Motors OnStar work, and Ken Cooper and Greg Lee for Fluor Corporation's project Change Impact System. This year's winner is in a different field - public health. Nevertheless, as we will see, the work clearly meets the standards set forth for the Society's Applications award: system dynamics modelling that leads to specific actions which yield demonstrable improvement in the performance of the system. In particular, the model developed by this year's winners has been used to identify the most effective and economical strategies to prevent and manage chronic disease. They have had a number of successful implementations of this work, which have led to measurable public health benefits.