2012
IWISH 2012 Proceeding
Modelling health care utilisation: a method comparison
Authors: Stephanie Parragh, Patrick Einzinger
Abstract
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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