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Causal analysis and system analysis: complementarity or opposition? Federica Russo Philosophy, Louvain & Kent
Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Causal analysis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Causal models are made of ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Causal assumptions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Presupposition:  the system is closed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],X Y R V
Presupposition:  the system is closed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],X Y R V
Presupposition:  the system is closed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],X Y R V
Causal models model mechanisms ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Hypothetico-deductivism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
System analysis: scope and goals ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Von Bertalanffy: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is a system? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Systems and the whole ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Systemics methodology (Bunge) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Systemics, a different worldview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A different worldview ,[object Object],[object Object]
A different worldview ,[object Object],[object Object]
A different worldview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Causal analysis  vs . system analysis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Every thing interacts with everything else The agent is internal Structures are identified without prior information
Causal analysis  within  system analysis? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A case study: health system and mortality  54  4  13  34  12  2 X 1 Economic development X 2 Social development X 3 Sanitary infrastructures X 4 Use of sanitary infrastructures X 5 Age structure Y Mortality
Lauriaux’s critique ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Causal analysis  within  system analysis? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Complementarity of the two approaches? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Lauriaux’s systemic story
 
My systemic worries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
To sum up ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
To conclude ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
References  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Editor's Notes

  1. Stability/invariance correspond to theoretical saturation or informational redundancy in qualitative analysis
  2. knowledge of the causal context is given by knowledge of the political, economic and social situation in Spain over the decades 1970-1980, which led to a low mortality rate at the time of the study. Knowledge of the socio-political context makes clearer the modelling strategy of this study. In fact, previous studies in demography and medical geography examined the incidence of the health system on regional mortality coming to the conclusion that regional differences in mortality could not possibly be explained by regional differences in the health system. However, Spain met deep socio-economic changes in the mid-Seventies, and consequently policy in that period simultaneously tried to intervene on improving the social and economic situation. mortality is influenced by the health system which is in turn influenced by the social and economic development. It is this background that explains the choice of distinguishing the supply and demand of medical care, unlike the majority of similar ecological studies.