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Greater than the Sum - Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control: NCI Tobacco Control Monograph Series No. 18 (Paperback)
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Greater than the Sum - Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control: NCI Tobacco Control Monograph Series No. 18 (Paperback)
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The world of tobacco control has become increasingly complex over
the past several decades. It involves more extensive
collaborations; new structures and configurations for coordinating
efforts; and multilevel social, professional, and knowledge
networks to improve information sharing for public health. Given
such complexity, there has been a corresponding increased need to
address tobacco control issues using a systems perspective that
enables one to better understand and navigate the dynamic and
evolving nature of the terrain to achieve the next generation of
improved health outcomes. This monograph describes the results of
the initial two years of the Initiative on the Study and
Implementation of Systems (ISIS), a four-year project. This
initiative is one of the first major coordinated efforts to study
and implement a systems thinking perspective using several systems
approaches and methodologies that appeared to be promising for
tobacco control in itself and as an exemplar for other complex
issues in today's public health environment. In the ancient,
revered Egyptian myth, the goddess Isis breathed clean air into her
late husband Osiris to restore him to life. In analogous fashion,
the ISIS project hopes to contemporize the myth in a tobacco
control context and encourage systems perspectives that have the
potential to help people breathe cleaner air and be restored to a
smoke-free life. Although this work is aimed at the efforts of the
tobacco control community, the word "tobacco" intentionally appears
only in the subtitle of this monograph. That is because ISIS was a
research effort that focused on the tobacco control environment to
examine how to apply systems approaches to issues that have become
endemic throughout public health, including the need for: Better
understanding of outcomes, including the unintended consequences of
complex interventions and events; Effective capture, dissemination,
and management of knowledge throughout the multilayered public
health system; More efficient organization and linkage of the
efforts of multiple, diverse stakeholders; Adoption of
evidence-based practices that inform practice and improve outcomes;
Strengthening of collaborative networks of scientists, policy
makers, government and foundation managers, practitioners, and the
public. This work was undertaken to help address some of the
fundamental organizational issues in tobacco control and, by
corollary, much of public health. The goal was to investigate the
potential of integrated, systems-based approaches to facilitate the
efforts of all stakeholders to make substantive changes in public
health outcomes.
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