Ripple effects mapping: capturing the wider impacts of systems change efforts in public health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Systems approaches are currently being advocated and implemented to address complex challenges in Public Health. These approaches work by bringing multi-sectoral stakeholders together to develop a collective understanding of the system, and then to identify places where they can leverage change across the system. Systems approaches are unpredictable, where cause-and-effect cannot always be disentangled, and unintended consequences - positive and negative - frequently arise. Evaluating such approaches is difficult and new methods are warranted.

Methods

Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) is a qualitative method which can capture the wider impacts, and adaptive nature, of a systems approach. Using a case study example from the evaluation of a physical activity-orientated s

SUBMITTER: Nobles J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8930282 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature