Embracing Chaos and Complexity: A Quantum Change for Public Health

Embracing chaos and complexity: a quantum change for public health.

Public health research and practice have been guided by a cognitive, rational paradigm where inputs produce linear, predictable changes in outputs. However, the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying this paradigm may be flawed. In particular, this perspective does not adequately account for nonlinear and quantum influences on human behavior. We propose that health behavior change is...

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...

Chaos and Complexity of quantum motion

The problem of characterizing complexity of quantum dynamics in particular of locally interacting chains of quantum particles will be reviewed and discussed from several different perspectives: (i) stability of motion against external perturbations and decoherence, (ii) efficiency of quantum simulation in terms of classical computation and entanglement production in operator spaces, (iii) quant...

The Exposome: Embracing the Complexity for Discovery in Environmental Health

Introduction It is well recognized that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to complex human diseases, and environmental contributions play a major role in disease burden (Schwartz and Collins 2007; Willett 2002). Since 2005, more than 2,300 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been published providing valuable insight into the genetic influences on human health and disease...

Embracing change.