The modern world is complex beyond human understanding and control. The science of complex systems aims to find new ways of thinking about the many interconnected networks of interaction that defy traditional approaches. Thus far, research into networks has largely been restricted to pairwise...

Background and motivation: The identification of medical and non-medical factors that explain the heterogeneity in population health is an important topic in health policy. Previous determinants of health studies have mainly dealt with community samples. The few that have dealt with both...