Bridging Borders: Integrating Data Analytics, Modeling, Simulation, and Gaming for Interdisciplinary Assessment of Health Aspects in City Networks

Raghothama, Jayanth; Moustaid, Elhabib; Shreenath, Vinutha Magal; Meijer, Sebastiaan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65338-9_8

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“…Mental health in cities and urban areas depends on many public sector institutions such as healthcare, education, labor market, and other structures in cities such as family, neighborhoods, communities, and other social support groups. Mental health requires such systems working together as cities status are the result of interactions of these systems (Portugali 2012 ; Raghothama et al 2017 ). Furthermore, as there is no shared agency over all those systems, it is often hard to identify propagating effects across these systems and ways to remedy them.…”

Section: The Complexity Of Mental Health In Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A System of Systems of Mental Health in Cities, Digging Deep into the Origins of Complexity

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Adm Policy Ment Health

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Mental health in urban environments is often treated from a healthcare provision perspective. Research in recent decades showed that mental illness in cities is a result of dysfunctional coordination between different city systems and structures. Given the nature of the city as a system of systems, this work builds through a participatory method, a general system dynamic model of factors that affect mental health in urban and regional environments. Through this method, we investigated the challenges of the application of such methodology to identify essential factors, feedback loops, and dependencies between systems to move forward in planning for mental health in cities. The outcome is a general model that showed the importance of factors that vary from individuals, families to communities and feedback loops that span multiple systems such as the city physical infrastructures, social environments, schools, labor market, and healthcare provision.

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Section: The Complexity Of Mental Health In Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%