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An Introduction To The Loop Analysis Of Qualitatively Specified Complex Causal Systems, Alexis Dinno
An Introduction To The Loop Analysis Of Qualitatively Specified Complex Causal Systems, Alexis Dinno
Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations
This presentation introduces the loop analysis method.
Loop Analysis Of Causal Feedback In Epidemiology: An Illustration Relating To Urban Neighborhoods And Resident Depressive Experiences, Alexis Dinno
Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations
The causal feedback implied by urban neighborhood conditions that shape human health experiences, that in turn shape neighborhood conditions through a complex causal web, raises a challenge for traditional epidemiological causal analyses. This article introduces the loop analysis method, and builds off of a core loop model linking neighborhood property vacancy rate, resident depressive symptoms, rate of neighborhood death, and rate of neighborhood exit in a feedback network. I justify and apply loop analysis to the specific example of depressive symptoms and abandoned urban residential property to show how inquiries into the behavior of causal systems can answer different kinds …