GitHub

German Epidemic Microsimulation System

The German Epidemic Microsimulation System (GEMS) is a high-performance geo-referential agent-based infectious disease modeling framework developed in Julia. It is a research outcome of the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Researchers Say More Than 60 Percent of American Children Will Use Medicaid or CHIP

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health estimated that 42 percent of American children will experience at least one gap in health insurance coverage before they turn 18 in a study published ...
Healio

Universal access to GLP-1s could halve global obesity prevalence in 5 years, study finds

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ahajournals.org

Comparing 3 Evidence‐Based Strategies to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Burden: An Individual‐Based Cardiometabolic Policy Simulation

Understanding the real‐world impact of clinical trials that change risk factors is important for health policy. We developed a microsimulation that estimates the population‐level benefits in each US ...
International Monetary Fund

IMF TaxFit Model Methodology and User Guidebook

The TaxFit microsimulation model calculates the taxes payable and benefits receivable by hypothetical households across an expanding list of countries. It simulates personal income taxes and social ...
BMJ

Protocol for an observational cohort study integrating real-world data and microsimulation to assess imaging surveillance strategies in stage I–IIIA NSCLC patients in OneFlorida+

Introduction Although lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, recent advances in early detection and treatment have led to improvements in survival. However, there is a ...
Backstage

Punchlines Unpacked: 10 Most Common Types of Jokes

The laugh-out-loud workplace comedy “30 Rock” (2006–2013) averaged more than seven jokes per minute, using the gamut of gags to get guffaws. Beyond a spectacular cast (Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy ...
IEEE

Toward Agent-Based Microsimulation--Another Approach

Abstract: This paper describes the use of agent-based modeling in large, generalized data systems for microsimulation studies. First, authors present the relevant characteristics of the ...
Pew Research Center

72% of Americans say the U.S. used to be a good example of democracy, but isn’t anymore

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...
Science Daily

Cuts to processed meat intake bring a range of health benefits

Reducing consumption of processed meat by around one-third could prevent more than 350,000 cases of diabetes in the US over 10 years. Reducing consumption of processed meat by around one-third could ...
News Medical

Reducing processed meat consumption could reduce burden of chronic diseases in the USA, study suggests

In a recent study published in The Lancet Planetary Health, researchers developed a microsimulation model, micro-Simulation of the Health Impacts of Food Transformations (mSHIFT), to evaluate the ...