TY - JOUR
T1 - Systems Thinking to Improve the Public's Health
AU - Leischow, Scott
AU - Best, Allan
AU - Trochim, William M.
AU - Clark, Pamela I.
AU - Gallagher, Richard S.
AU - Marcus, Stephen E.
AU - Matthews, Eva
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - Abstract: Improving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting the adaptive complexity inherent in public health systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose systems thinking as a conceptual rubric for the practice of team science in public health, and transdisciplinary, translational research as a catalyst for promoting the functional efficiency of science. The paper lays a foundation for the conceptual understanding of systems thinking and transdisciplinary research, and will provide illustrative examples within and beyond public health. A set of recommendations for a systems-centric approach to translational science will be presented.
AB - Abstract: Improving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting the adaptive complexity inherent in public health systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose systems thinking as a conceptual rubric for the practice of team science in public health, and transdisciplinary, translational research as a catalyst for promoting the functional efficiency of science. The paper lays a foundation for the conceptual understanding of systems thinking and transdisciplinary research, and will provide illustrative examples within and beyond public health. A set of recommendations for a systems-centric approach to translational science will be presented.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.014
DO - 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.014
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18619400
AN - SCOPUS:46449095436
SN - 0749-3797
VL - 35
SP - S196-S203
JO - American journal of preventive medicine
JF - American journal of preventive medicine
IS - 2 SUPPL.
ER -