TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives of (/memorandum for) systems thinking on COVID-19 pandemic and pathology
AU - Tretter, Felix
AU - Peters, Eva M.J.
AU - Sturmberg, Joachim
AU - Bennett, Jeanette
AU - Voit, Eberhard
AU - Dietrich, Johannes W.
AU - Smith, Gary
AU - Weckwerth, Wolfram
AU - Grossman, Zvi
AU - Wolkenhauer, Olaf
AU - Marcum, James A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Is data-driven analysis sufficient for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and for justifying public health regulations? In this paper, we argue that such analysis is insufficient. Rather what is needed is the identification and implementation of over-arching hypothesis-related and/or theory-based rationales to conduct effective SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 (Corona) research. To that end, we analyse and compare several published recommendations for conceptual and methodological frameworks in medical research (e.g., public health, preventive medicine and health promotion) to current research approaches in medical Corona research. Although there were several efforts published in the literature to develop integrative conceptual frameworks before the COVID-19 pandemic, such as social ecology for public health issues and systems thinking in health care, only a few attempts to utilize these concepts can be found in medical Corona research. For this reason, we propose nested and integrative systemic modelling approaches to understand Corona pandemic and Corona pathology. We conclude that institutional efforts for knowledge integration and systemic thinking, but also for integrated science, are urgently needed to avoid or mitigate future pandemics and to resolve infection pathology.
AB - Is data-driven analysis sufficient for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and for justifying public health regulations? In this paper, we argue that such analysis is insufficient. Rather what is needed is the identification and implementation of over-arching hypothesis-related and/or theory-based rationales to conduct effective SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 (Corona) research. To that end, we analyse and compare several published recommendations for conceptual and methodological frameworks in medical research (e.g., public health, preventive medicine and health promotion) to current research approaches in medical Corona research. Although there were several efforts published in the literature to develop integrative conceptual frameworks before the COVID-19 pandemic, such as social ecology for public health issues and systems thinking in health care, only a few attempts to utilize these concepts can be found in medical Corona research. For this reason, we propose nested and integrative systemic modelling approaches to understand Corona pandemic and Corona pathology. We conclude that institutional efforts for knowledge integration and systemic thinking, but also for integrated science, are urgently needed to avoid or mitigate future pandemics and to resolve infection pathology.
KW - integrative systems pathology of Corona
KW - methodology of systemic modelling
KW - social ecology of pandemics
KW - systems science and thinking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138723266&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jep.13772
DO - 10.1111/jep.13772
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C2 - 36168893
AN - SCOPUS:85138723266
SN - 1356-1294
VL - 29
SP - 415
EP - 429
JO - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
JF - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
IS - 3
ER -