Key Features:

Uses interactive simulation for modeling health behavior dynamics for complex public health systems

Demonstrates agent-based modeling of individual health behavior, network behavior, public health intervention effects, and the spread of disease

Teaches readers to create models that can improve their local needs assessments, program logic modeling, and program planning and evaluation

Includes numerous interactive online simulations, downloadable programs, and examples of applications to planning interventions

Facilitates "systems thinking," a required core competency