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March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 403-405
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.082842

EDITORIAL

Systems Thinking and Modeling for Public Health Practice

Scott J. Leischow, PhD and Bobby Milstein, MPH

Scott J. Leischow is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson. Bobby Milstein is with the Division of Adult and Community Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints may be sent to Scott J. Leischow, PhD, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, 1515 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724 (e-mail: sleischow@azcc.arizona.edu), or Bobby Milstein, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE, Mail Stop K-67, Atlanta, GA 30341 (e-mail: bmilstein@cdc.gov).

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   INTRODUCTION
 
Many public health workers will regard this issue of the Journal, devoted to the theme of systems thinking and modeling, as a welcome affirmation that our endeavors to protect the public’s health do indeed depend on more than the sum of their parts. As Midgley observes, "The whole concept of public health is founded on the insight that health and illness have causes or conditions that go beyond the biology and behavior of the individual human being."1(p466) Animated by this systemic insight, public health leaders have worked for more than a century to identify and transform the processes that leave . . . [Full Text]


   THE CHALLENGE OF SYSTEMS THINKING
 

   CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SYSTEMS THINKING
 

   A NEW FRONTIER IN PUBLIC HEALTH
 



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