Peter Hovmand
Biographic Data
| ID | 2471081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hovmand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovmand |
| SIGNATURE | HOVMAND P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Matthew W. Kreuter, Debbie J. Pfeiffer, Maggie Fairchild, Suchitra Rath, Balaji Golla, and Chris Casey are with the Health Communication Research Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. Peter Hovmand is with The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leveraging Community‐Based System Dynamics to Understand Long Covid Disparities in African American Communities
BACKGROUND: Long Covid disproportionately affects African American communities, exacerbating pre-existing health disparities and systemic barriers to care. Conventional public health interventions often fail to address the complex systemic issues at play due to a lack of grounding in community-certified knowledge about the broader societal context that produces the disparities and in which the interventions must operate. New methods are needed to…
Ageing among Black and non‐Hispanic White older adults
Older adults are living longer in the United States and the proportion of those belonging to minoritized groups is growing. The value and characteristics of quality of life (QoL) at an older age have becoming of central concern to policy makers. To investigate the wicked problem of ageing and QoL, we conducted and compared two group model building workshops in St. Louis City, one with 16 White and another with 10 Black American older adults, age …
Suicide attempts during adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Despite increased efforts to prevent suicide, attempts to die by suicide are rising amongst youth in the United States. Testing causal theories that depict suicide attempts from an adolescent development perspective could bolster prevention and intervention efforts. This study using system dynamics modeling to appraise whether a prevalent theory of suicide, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, predicts suicide attempts across adoles…
From causal loop diagrams to future scenarios
Urban health is shaped by a system of factors spanning multiple levels and scales, and through a complex set of interactions. Building on causal loop diagrams developed via several group model building workshops, we apply the cross-impact balance (CIB) method to understand the strength and nature of the relationships between factors in the food and transportation system, and to identify possible future urban health scenarios (i.e., permutations o…
Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research
Background. Whole-of-community interventions have been recommended and show promise for preventing obesity; however, research to understand the mechanisms underlying their success or failure is lacking. Complex systems approaches may be useful to address this gap. Purpose. To describe the evolution and utilization of qualitative and quantitative complex systems methods to understand and model whole-of-community obesity prevention interventions. A…
Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity
Background : Community-based initiatives show promise for preventing childhood obesity. They are characterized by community leaders and members working together to address complex local drivers of energy balance. Objectives : To present a protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in ten communities in the Great South Coast Region of Victoria, Australia to test whether it is possible to: (1) strengthen community action for childhood ob…
The “Long Tail” and Public Health
The prevailing approach to improving population health focuses on shifting population means through a few targeted and universal interventions. The success of this approach for eliminating health disparities depends on an assumption about the distribution of demand for such interventions. We explored whether long tail thinking from business might yield greater progress in eliminating disparities. We examined 2011 to 2013 data from 513 state and l…
From causal loop diagrams to future scenarios
Urban health is shaped by a system of factors spanning multiple levels and scales, and through a complex set of interactions. Building on causal loop diagrams developed via several group model building workshops, we apply the cross-impact balance (CIB) method to understand the strength and nature of the relationships between factors in the food and transportation system, and to identify possible future urban health scenarios (i.e., permutations o…
The “Long Tail” and Public Health
The prevailing approach to improving population health focuses on shifting population means through a few targeted and universal interventions. The success of this approach for eliminating health disparities depends on an assumption about the distribution of demand for such interventions. We explored whether long tail thinking from business might yield greater progress in eliminating disparities. We examined 2011 to 2013 data from 513 state and l…
Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity
Background : Community-based initiatives show promise for preventing childhood obesity. They are characterized by community leaders and members working together to address complex local drivers of energy balance. Objectives : To present a protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in ten communities in the Great South Coast Region of Victoria, Australia to test whether it is possible to: (1) strengthen community action for childhood ob…
Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research
Background. Whole-of-community interventions have been recommended and show promise for preventing obesity; however, research to understand the mechanisms underlying their success or failure is lacking. Complex systems approaches may be useful to address this gap. Purpose. To describe the evolution and utilization of qualitative and quantitative complex systems methods to understand and model whole-of-community obesity prevention interventions. A…
From causal loop diagrams to future scenarios
Urban health is shaped by a system of factors spanning multiple levels and scales, and through a complex set of interactions. Building on causal loop diagrams developed via several group model building workshops, we apply the cross-impact balance (CIB) method to understand the strength and nature of the relationships between factors in the food and transportation system, and to identify possible future urban health scenarios (i.e., permutations o…
Suicide attempts during adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Despite increased efforts to prevent suicide, attempts to die by suicide are rising amongst youth in the United States. Testing causal theories that depict suicide attempts from an adolescent development perspective could bolster prevention and intervention efforts. This study using system dynamics modeling to appraise whether a prevalent theory of suicide, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, predicts suicide attempts across adoles…
Ageing among Black and non‐Hispanic White older adults
Older adults are living longer in the United States and the proportion of those belonging to minoritized groups is growing. The value and characteristics of quality of life (QoL) at an older age have becoming of central concern to policy makers. To investigate the wicked problem of ageing and QoL, we conducted and compared two group model building workshops in St. Louis City, one with 16 White and another with 10 Black American older adults, age …
Leveraging Community‐Based System Dynamics to Understand Long Covid Disparities in African American Communities
BACKGROUND: Long Covid disproportionately affects African American communities, exacerbating pre-existing health disparities and systemic barriers to care. Conventional public health interventions often fail to address the complex systemic issues at play due to a lack of grounding in community-certified knowledge about the broader societal context that produces the disparities and in which the interventions must operate. New methods are needed to…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychological intervention (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Business (2 works)