ReviewHealth research policy and systems2023
Conceptualising the value of simulation modelling for public engagement with policy: a critical literature review.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Leveraging group model building to operationalize implementation strategies across implementation phases: an exemplar related to child maltreatment intervention selection.Implementation science communications · 2024Article
- Cultural and Contextual Adaptation of Digital Health Interventions: Narrative Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Review
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Abstract
As we face complex and dynamically changing public health and environmental challenges, simulation modelling has come to occupy an increasingly central role in public engagements with policy. Shifts are occurring not only in terms of wider public understandings of modelling, but also in how the value of modelling is conceptualised within scientific modelling communities. We undertook a critical literature review to synthesise the underlying epistemic, theoretical and methodological assumptions about the role and value of simulation modelling within the literature across a range of fields (e.g., health, social science and environmental management) that engage with participatory modelling approaches. We identified four cross-cutting narrative conceptualisations of the value of modelling across different research traditions: (1) models simulate and help solve complex problems; (2) models as tools for community engagement; (3) models as tools for consensus building; (4) models as volatile technologies that generate social effects. Exploring how these ideas of 'value' overlap and what they offer one another has implications for how participatory simulation modelling approaches are designed, evaluated and communicated to diverse audiences. Deeper appreciation of the conditions under which simulation modelling can catalyse multiple social effects is recommended.
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