Systems thinking in public health

Systems thinking in public health

Systems thinking is a core skill in public health and health promotion and helps professionals develop policies and initiatives that are aware of and prepared for unintended consequences. Although there is no universal definition of a system it can generally be regarded as a group of interacting, interrelated and interdependent components that form a complex and unified whole (The Systems Thinker, 2018). All systems have elements or components that make up the system, a relationship between the elements or components and a pattern of the system as whole.

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