Open AccessHow do local authority plans to tackle obesity reflect systems thinking?
Author(s) -
Ravita Taheem,
Kathryn Woods-Townsend,
Wendy Lawrence,
Janis Baird,
Keith M. Godfrey,
Mark A. Hanson
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
perspectives in public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.841
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1757-9139
pISSN - 1757-9147
DOI - 10.1177/17579139221106337
Subject(s) - leverage (statistics) , psychological intervention , systems thinking , public health , public relations , medicine , public economics , political science , computer science , economics , nursing , artificial intelligence , machine learning
A whole systems approach to tackling obesity has been recommended by Public Health England for several years. This qualitative study aimed to investigate whether systems thinking is reflected in local authority plans and strategies to tackle obesity, using the leverage points for intervention in a complex system, as a framework.