Assessment Description:

Public health professionals must work across various sectors and with key stakeholders such as otherprofessionals and community groups in order to improve health outcomes.

Often, thesestakeholders have competing interests and conflicting ideas about health, and about what would bethe most effective ways to meet public health needs and outcomes. Stakeholders may not evenshare the same values related to improving public health.

In some cases, using a systems thinking orintersectoral approach may pose many challenges for implementation.

To prepare for this assessment, choose one public health issue (e.g. obesity, a chronic disease) inyour country of origin for which it is obvious that a systems thinking approach has not been, or is notbeing, applied. Then in approximately 1000 words:?

Describe the public health issue. ?

Explain the roles of stakeholders, both within the health system and in other sectors inaddressing this issue.?

Drawing on research evidence, explain the obstacles that are preventing the application of asystems thinking approach to this issue. ?

Based on the literature, offer suggestions (e.g. new governance arrangements) for how asystems thinking approach could be applied to this issue.