Health Policy Special Interest Group (HPSIG) of the System Dynamics Society Meeting on System Dynamics and Health Reform

摘要

The meeting of the HPSIG at the 2005 ISDC focused on the question of why reform is so difficult to achieve in the US and other countries and the potential role that the HPSIG group might play in applying system dynamics to health care reform. The meeting began with a presentation by Dr. Steffie Woolhandler on the magnitude of the health care problem in the US. Then, Jack Homer and Gary Hirsch presented the highlights of the paper "Achieving Health Care Reform in the United States: Toward a Whole-System Understanding" that had been prepared in advance to provide a basis for discussion about health reform and the potential role of system dynamics. (Search on that title or one of the authors names to access that paper in the proceedings.) There were comments from a responder panel and then extensive discussion by the group about the paper and future directions that the HPSIG's work might take.