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A Multi-purpose Agent-Based Model of the Healthcare System

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Advances in Social Simulation (ESSA 2019)

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This article presents the main characteristics of the first version of HealthSim, a general purpose agent-based model of the health care system. We present the core elements which are likely to be common across health care systems and briefly discuss how the model can and must be adapted to be used for a specific context.

We would like to thank Paola Plata for her contributions during the development phase of the model.

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Notes

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    In [4] we provide a full exercise of adapting the model to the Swiss context to simulate the effects of a proposed public policy measure.

  2. 2.

    We use a scale from 0 to 1, where a combined severity of 1 refers to death [5].

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  1. National Laboratory of Public Policy, Simulation Unit, Mexico City, Mexico

    Florian Chávez-Juárez, Lucy Hackett, Georgina Trujillo & Alejandro Blasco

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  1. Florian Chávez-Juárez
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Correspondence to Florian Chávez-Juárez .

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Petra Ahrweiler

  2. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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Chávez-Juárez, F., Hackett, L., Trujillo, G., Blasco, A. (2021). A Multi-purpose Agent-Based Model of the Healthcare System. In: Ahrweiler, P., Neumann, M. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_39

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