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S. Parragh, P. Einzinger:
"Modelling health care utilisation: a method comparison";
in: "The 1st International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Health Care", herausgegeben von: Università di Genova; DIME Università di Genova, Rende, 2012, ISBN: 978-88-97999-13-3, S. 101 - 106.

Models of health care utilisation help to identify
influencing factors and to study the possible impact of
different strategies. In addition to static analyses,
dynamic models can be used to perform simulation
experiments, which yield insights into the dynamical
behaviour of the system. Various methods exist to
establish a dynamic model. Two widely used, but
substantially differing approaches are system dynamics
and agent-based modelling. Their benefits and
drawbacks for the application in this field are outlined
and compared. To demonstrate their differences and
analogies under practical application, a simplified
model of health care utilisation is established and the
implementation as agent-based and as system dynamics
model is described. Then, the results of simulation runs
are presented and discussed with regards to both the
comparison of the two methods and their possible
meaning.

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