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Background
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We provide here resources that provide a background to the type of modelling and health-economics work we are undertaken.


Health-Economics
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0. `TLO resources on the Global Health Economics Network website <https://globalhealtheconomics.tghn.org/training/short-courses/>`_


Modelling
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0. Tutorial introduction to individual-based modelled [`Video <https://youtu.be/Qwkcut56kro>`_] (:download:`Slides <./background/introduction-to-individual-based-models.pdf>`)

1. `Mathematical models in the evaluation of health programmes <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361061505X?via%3Dihub>`_

2. `Agent-Based Modelling in Public Health: Current Applications and Future Directions <https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014317>`_

3. `Systems modelling and simulation in health service design, delivery and decision making <https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/25/1/38.abstract>`_

4. `Health system modelling research: towards a whole-health-system perspective for identifying good value for money investments in health system strengthening <https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/2/e001311>`_

5. `Lessons from a decade of individual-based models for infectious disease transmission: A systematic review (2006-2015) <https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-017-2699-8>`_

6. `The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism <https://www.jasss.org/23/2/7.html>`_

7. `A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380006002043>`_

8. `Developing agent-based models of complex health behaviour <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829218301047>`_

9. `Modelling Good Research Practices—Overview: A Report of the ISPOR-SMDM Modelling Good Research Practices Task Force-1 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109830151201652X>`_

10. `Mathematical modelling for health systems research: A systematic review of system dynamics and agent-based models <https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-019-4627-7>`_

11. `Systems science methods in public health: dynamics, networks, and agents. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22224885/>`_

12. `Simple or complicated agent-based models? A complicated issue <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815216306041>`_

13. `Individual-Based Simulation Models of HIV Transmission: Reporting Quality and Recommendations <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0075624>`_