Complex Interventions for a Complex System? Using Systems Thinking to Explore Ways to Address Unhealthy Commodity Industry Influence on Public Health Policy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions are needed to prevent and mitigate unhealthy commodity industry (UCI) influence on public health policy. Whilst literature on interventions is emerging, current conceptualisations remain incomplete as they lack considerations of the wider systemic complexities surrounding UCI influence, which may limit intervention effectiveness. This study applies systems thinking as a theoretical lens to help identify and explore how possible interventions relate to one another in the systems in which they are embedded. Related challenges to addressing UCI influence on policy, and actions to support interventions, were also explored.

Methods

Online participatory workshops were conducted with stakeholders with expertise in UCIs. A systems map, depicting five pathway

SUBMITTER: Bertscher A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11608292 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature