SimHealth

game

Database Image: 

Publisher: 

Maxis Software

Developer: 

Thinking Tools, inc.

Published in 1994, this simulation game challenges players to develop and enact a perfect healthcare system for the United States. Players devise plans that reflect their own personal values and then apply it to society to see how it works. Virtual patients, doctors, and the voting public provide feedback and tips to help players modify their plans to fit the needs of U.S. society.

Keywords: 

  • health policy
  • medical
  • simulation

Topic: 

  • Health Care and Medicine

Target Population: 

  • General Audience

Genre: 

  • Simulation

Game Platform: 

  • Computer

Source: 

  • Purchase

Partners

  • HopeLab
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • SAGE Publishing
  • UNICEF Kid Power