Exploring the value Australian community leaders see in a system dynamics model calibrated with local data: social norms and childhood obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Systems approaches (SAs) seek to understand the dynamics behind system behaviour and formulate effective actions given these dynamics. In public health, SAs often rely on qualitative systems maps visualising factors and their interconnections, frequently developed through group model building. Quantitative system dynamics models (SDMs) can offer additional insights: SDMs can simulate how system behaviour would change if we were to make an adjustment to the system, in what-if scenarios. We explored what (added) value Australian community leaders involved in SAs see in an SDM for understanding a system and its behaviour.

Setting

The Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity (WHOSTOPS), a community-level collaboration between researchers a

SUBMITTER: Crielaard L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11840901 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature