Monograph 18: Systems Thinking: Potential to …

373 Systems thinking : Potential to Transform Tobacco ControlThe preceding chapter explored contemporary challenges faced by proponents of tobacco control, particularly with respect to improving public health outcomes. This chapter presents a view of Systems thinking as an endeavor that encompasses a broad and rich historical tradition of Systems fields that could help address the increasingly complex challenges that tobacco control faces. The chapter addresses the application of Systems approaches to tobacco control by examining n Current Systems thinking approaches, including theories and issues encompassed by or closely allied to Systems thinkingn Four promising Systems approaches under study in the Initiative on the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS) project, which are explored in detail in subsequent chapters within the broader context of an integrated Systems environmentn Key questions of tobacco control practitioners, researchers, and policy makers that are addressed by Systems thinking

is meant by systems thinking, present a brief overview of the vast terrain of systems concepts, suggest an integrated view of the idea of systems thinking that is emerging in part from the work conducted in this project, and outline some of the implications

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