Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970-1990
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 625
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
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In: International migration review: IMR, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 625
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 29, S. 625-656
ISSN: 0197-9183
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 403-423
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 34, Heft 2
ISSN: 1520-6688
A recent New York law requires medical providers to offer HIV tests as part of routine care. We developed a system dynamics simulation model of the HIV testing and care system to help administrators understand the law's potential epidemic impact, resource needs, strategies to improve implementation, and appropriate outcome indicators for future policy evaluations once postlaw data become available. Policy modeling allowed us to synthesize information from numerous sources including quantitative administrative data sets and practitioners' content expertise, structure the information to be viewed both numerically and visually, and organize consensus for decisionmaking purposes. This case illustrates how policy modeling can provide an integrated framework for administrators to examine policy problems in complex systems, particularly when data time lags limit pre-post comparisons and key outcomes cannot be measured directly. [Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.]