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Record W2102455648 · doi:10.4278/ajhp.25.4.eix

Systems Thinking and Health Promotion

2011· editorial· en· W2102455648 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Health Promotion · 2011
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Policy Implementation Science
Canadian institutionsVancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteVancouver Coastal Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth promotionSystems thinkingPublic relationsPromotion (chess)Social ecologyConceptual frameworkComplex adaptive systemSociologyPsychologyEngineering ethicsMedicinePolitical scienceNursingSocial sciencePublic healthEcologyEngineering

Abstract

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The launch of the American Journal of Health Promotion blessed the field with a broad conceptual framework, now refined to include physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of health. Throughout the years, this framework has become increasingly nuanced as research and practice have woven the rich fabric of what we know as health promotion today. However, although the multidimensionality of health promotion is firmly established, we still have lacked a shared understanding of the realities of multilevel influence and the value in multilevel intervention. The basic concept is well accepted, as illustrated, for example, by the Stokol’ social ecological model or the Bronfenbrenner developmental ecology model. Recently, there has been growing interest in systems thinking as a framework to guide science and strategy for a more comprehensive, integrated way of addressing individual, group, organization, community, and societal factors that influence health behavior. A serious shift to systems thinking for health promotion would require fundamental reworking of our usual ways of thinking, working, and evaluating. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a landmark report called Crossing the Quality Chasm, in which it endorsed the idea that health care systems are complex adaptive systems (CAS). As health promotion shifts to greater attention to multilevel influences and systems change strategy, CAS principles must be considered. The IOM report followed an important publication in 1998 and was accompanied by a series of publications in the British Medical Journal, which advocated the same emphasis on adopting the CAS lens to better understand how to improve and transform health systems. The IOM report was very important, as it was the first high-level consensus report that endorsed the CAS lens. What all of these publications emphasized is the dual nature of CAS: that they are at one and the same time complex and unpredictable, yet amenable to guided transformation by applying simple rules, as long as these rules are applied with the requisite flexibility to allow for adaptation processes. Health promotion issues are increasingly described as complex problems, deeply embedded within the fabric of society; consider, for example, obesity and chronic disease. Complex problems require intervention at many different system levels and the engagement of actors and organizations across levels ranging from the home, school, and work environments to communities, regions, and entire countries. This multi-level, multi-actor view is at the heart of systems thinking. Key features of complex systems that need to be taken into account in health promotion intervention and evaluation include the following: they are self-organizing and constantly adapting to change; they are driven by interactions between systems components and governed by feedback; and they are nonlinear and often unpredictable, with changes on one part of the system producing unexpected changes in other parts. As a consequence of these features, they often are program and policy resistant. This is not the way most of us in health promotion think about the needs and design of our interventions. A fundamental mind shift is needed, as well as major investments in theory, research methods, practice, and policy. Areas of particular importance for further development include interorganizational partnerships, networks, leadership, and integrated strategic communications. To summarize, the health promotion field during the past 25 years has developed a mosaic of research results and intervention strategies, richly colored by a broad, integrative view of key dimension of individual health. What is most needed now is a complementary view of how best to foster and support systems thinking for a more comprehensive, integrated, and dynamic framework for population approaches to health for all.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.038
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.047
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0380.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.467
GPT teacher head0.632
Teacher spread0.165 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it