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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/systems-science-obesity
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课程名称：系统科学与肥胖 概述：系统科学在气象学、工程学和决策分析等多个领域取得了突破性进展，但在公共卫生领域的应用尚处于起步阶段。本课程旨在向学生介绍系统科学的基本理论构建与数据分析工具，并将这些工具应用于更好地理解人类群体中的肥胖流行病。课程包括一个实验室环节，学生将使用标准的（免费）软件 NetLogo 进行基于代理的食物获取行为的简单演示模型。课程的中心思想是从复杂、嵌套系统的角度，考察肥胖流行病作为一种涌现现象，关注反馈过程、多层次互动和涌现现象。虽然重点放在肥胖问题上，但课程目标是探索系统方法如何应用于全国和国际范围内的其他非传染性疾病。 课程主题包括： a) 肥胖在不同时间和地点的流行病学 b) 解释群体肥胖的理论 c) 环境和经济资源在肥胖中的作用 d) 系统科学的基本概念和工具 e) 相关行为的能量平衡建模 f) 基于代理的模型、系统动态模型和社会网络模型 syllabus：
模块1：肥胖的事实及从系统科学角度看人类群体。
模块2：复杂系统、系统动态模型及存量和流量的发展。本模块包括一个实验室课程。
模块3：社会网络与肥胖、邻里与饮食习惯、价格与贫困。
模块4：基于代理的建模及其概念动机。本模块包括一个实验室课程。
Name:Module 1
Description:Obesity, the facts of the case, and human populations through a systems science lens.
Name:Module 2
Description:Complex systems, system dynamic models, and developing a stock and flow. This module includes a lab lesson.
Name:Module 3
Description:Social networks and obesity, neighborhoods and noshing, and prices and poverty.
Name:Module 4
Description:Agent based modeling and conceptual motivation for agent based modeling. This module includes a lab lesson.
Systems science has been instrumental in breaking new scientific ground in diverse fields such as meteorology, engineering and decision analysis. However, it is just beginning to impact public health. This seminar is designed to introduce students to basic tools of theory building and data analysis in systems science and to apply those tools to better understand the obesity epidemic in human populations. There will also be a lab in which students will use a simple demonstration model of food acquisition behavior using agent-based modeling on standard (free) software (netlogo). The central organizing idea of the course is to examine the obesity epidemic at a population level as an emergent properties of complex, nested systems, with attention to feedback processes, multilevel interactions, and the phenomenon of emergence. While the emphasis will be on obesity, the goal will be to explore ways in which the systems approach can be applied to other non-communicable diseases both nationally and internationally. Topics will include: a) the epidemiology of obesity across time and place, b) theories to explain population obesity, c) the role of environments and economic resources in obesity c) basic concepts and tools of systems science, d) modeling energy-balance related behaviors in context, e) agent-based models, systems dynamic models, and social network models
