The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health

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Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Behavior Change

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The public health emergency of climate change: how/are Canadian post-secondary public health sciences programs responding?

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The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: a systematic review

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Person-Centered Health Promotion: Learning from 10 Years of Practice within Long Term Conditions

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Routinely collected infant feeding data: Time for global action

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Delivering national public mental health – experience from England

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Current opportunities to catalyze research in nutrition and cancer prevention – an interdisciplinary perspective

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What can sociology offer urban public health?

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The Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19

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Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments

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Measuring Shifts in Mental Models in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Rural Australia

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Developing and Evaluating a Data-Driven and Systems Approach to Health Promotion Among Vocational Students: Protocol for the Data Health Study

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Producing knowledge together: a participatory approach to synthesising research across a large-scale collaboration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

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Enabling pupils to flourish: six evidence-based principles of whole-school wellbeing promotion

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Incorporating Complexity and System Dynamics into Economic Modelling for Mental Health Policy and Planning

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Impact of frailty, malnutrition and socioeconomic status on perioperative outcomes

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Nature Medicine Commission on dialysis policy in low- and middle-income countries

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Spouses, social networks and other upstream determinants of type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Predictors of Changes in Sleep Duration in Dutch Primary Schoolchildren: the ChecKid Study

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Maximizing User Engagement with Behavior Change Interventions

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Aging Population

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Multidimensional Population Health Modeling: A Data-Driven Multivariate Statistical Learning Approach

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Enhancing national audit through addressing the quality improvement capabilities of feedback recipients: a multi-phase intervention development study

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Developing and implementing 20-mph speed limits in Edinburgh and Belfast: mixed-methods study

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The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions

Federica Russo, B., & Kelly, M. P. (2023) · Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · doi:10.1332/175795921x16835353334712 · Cited by 11

System dynamics models of depression at the population level: a scoping review

Graham, E. A., Gariépy, G., & Orpana, H. (2023) · Health Research Policy and Systems · doi:10.1186/s12961-023-00995-7 · Cited by 11

Systems approaches to population health in Canada: how have they been applied, and what are the insights and future implications for practice?

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Opportunities in the Australian national education initiative for promoting mental health in schools

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Exploring how lifestyle weight management programmes for children are commissioned and evaluated in England: a mixed methodology study

Mears, R., Jago, R., Sharp, D., Patel, A., Kipping, R., & Hamilton-Shield, J. P. (2019) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025423 · Cited by 11

The QUEST for Effective and Equitable Policies to Prevent Non-communicable Diseases: Co-Production Lessons From Stakeholder Workshops

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The Science of Behavior Change: The Road Ahead

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Epilogue: Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited

Heckman, J. J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198865360.003.0014 · Cited by 11

How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study

Evans, D., Bolden, R., Jarvis, C., Mann, R., Patterson, M., & Thompson, E. (2021) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2021.04.033 · Cited by 11

Causal chain analysis in systematic reviews of international development interventions

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Value based health care (VbHC): woher und wohin?

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Translational health policy: towards an integration of academia and policy

van Schalkwyk, M. C., & Harris, M. J. (2017) · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · doi:10.1177/0141076817735692 · Cited by 11

Protocol for a systematic review of the use of qualitative comparative analysis for evaluative questions in public health research

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Bridging research and practice in the psychology of doping in sport: Reflections and future directions

Backhouse, S. H., & Patterson, L. B. (2025) · Psychology of sport and exercise · doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103033 · Cited by 11

Participatory System Dynamics Approach Targeting Childhood Health in a Small Danish Community (Children’s Cooperation Denmark): Protocol for a Feasibility Study Design

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Challenges in evaluating implementation and effectiveness in real-world settings: evaluation proposal for school-based health-promoting intervention

Hahnraths, M. T. H., Willeboordse, M., & van Schayck, O. C. P. (2023) · Health Promotion International · doi:10.1093/heapro/daac185 · Cited by 10

Involving national stakeholders in a systems approach to map drivers of childhood obesity and actions to prevent childhood obesity in Denmark: the Generation Healthy Kids Study

Ryom, K., Bloch, P., Toft, U., Hoeeg, D., Thomsen, L. T., Allender, S., Rutter, H., Bauman, A. E., Krølner, R. F., & Hansen, A. B. G. (2025) · Health Research Policy and Systems · doi:10.1186/s12961-024-01279-4 · Cited by 10

Financial factors and depression and anxiety: A symptom-specific approach in the general population

Bjørndal, L. D., Røysamb, E., Nes, R. B., von Soest, T., & Ebrahimi, O. V. (2025) · SSM - Mental Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100508 · Cited by 10

The long-term health and wellbeing impacts of Healthy New Towns (HNTs): protocol for a baseline and feasibility study of HNT demonstrator sites in England

Watts, P. N., Rance, S., McGowan, V. J., Brown, H., Bambra, C. L., Findlay, G., & Harden, A. (2020) · Pilot and Feasibility Studies · doi:10.1186/s40814-020-0550-2 · Cited by 10

Indigenous Education, Well-Being, and Resilience— A Systemic Approach

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System Complexity in Influenza Infection and Vaccination: Effects upon Excess Winter Mortality

Jones, R., & Ponomarenko, A. (2022) · Infectious Disease Reports · doi:10.3390/idr14030035 · Cited by 10

Participatory Modeling with Discrete-Event Simulation: A Hybrid Approach to Inform Policy Development to Reduce Emergency Department Wait Times

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Transformation of health systems: contribution of population health intervention research

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Öffentliche Gesundheit in Deutschland: Eine Perspektive des Nachwuchses

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Estimating the cost-effectiveness of salt reformulation and increasing access to leisure centres in England, with PRIMEtime CE model validation using the AdViSHE tool

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Investigating local policy drivers for alcohol harm prevention: a comparative case study of two local authorities in England

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Area-Level Walkability and the Geographic Distribution of High Body Mass in Sydney, Australia: A Spatial Analysis Using the 45 and Up Study

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Impact of Carers’ Smoking Status on Childhood Obesity in the Growing up in Ireland Cohort Study

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Can We Build an Evidence Base on the Impact of Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems? Comment on "What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health"

Finegood, D. T. (2020) · International Journal of Health Policy and Management · doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2020.194 · Cited by 10

Injury prevention: achieving population-level change

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A Complex Systems Approach for Understanding the Effect of Policy and Management Interventions on Health System Performance

Thompson, J., McClure, R., & de Silva, A. M. (2019) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781119485001.ch35 · Cited by 10

Participatory systems mapping for population health research, policy and practice: guidance on method choice and design

Blake, C., Rigby, B. P., Armstrong-Moore, R., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Gilbert, N., Hassannezhad, M., Meier, P. S., Mitchell, K. R., Penn, A. S., Readman, B., et al. (2024) · doi:10.36399/gla.pubs.316563 · Cited by 10

Food insecurity, HIV disease progression and access to care among HIV-infected Russians not on ART

Idrisov, B., Lunze, K., Cheng, D. M., Blokhina, E., Gnatienko, N., Patts, G. J., Bridden, C., Kleinman, R. E., Weiser, S. D., Krupitsky, E., et al. (2017) · AIDS and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10461-017-1885-4 · Cited by 9

Context matters—the phased development of an adaptable food literacy intervention: Up for Cooking

Harms, L. S. E., van Assema, P., Gubbels, J. S., Gerards, S. M. P. L., Linssen, E., Vonken, L., & Bessems, K. M. H. H. (2023) · Health Promotion International · doi:10.1093/heapro/daad071 · Cited by 9

The Middle-Out Perspective: an approach to formalise ‘normal practice’ in public health advocacy

Mindell, J. S., Parag, Y., Bartington, S., Stoll, L., Barlow, J. G., & Janda, K. B. (2022) · Perspectives in Public Health · doi:10.1177/17579139221138451 · Cited by 9

Recognising the anxiogenic environment as a driver of youth anxiety

Grant, J. B., Batterham, P. J., Calear, A. L., Grant, W. J., & Christensen, H. M. (2023) · The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · doi:10.1016/s2352-4642(23)00023-8 · Cited by 9

The impact of social determinants on health outcomes in a region in the North of England: a structural equation modelling analysis

Newton, D., Stephenson, J. R., Azevedo, L., Sah, R. K., Poudel, A. N., & Richardson, O. (2024) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2024.03.024 · Cited by 10

The emergence of a modern paradigm for urban health

Grant, M., de Leeuw, E., Caiaffa, W. T., Boufford, J. I., Dora, C. F. C., & Parnell, S. M. (2024) · F1000Research · doi:10.12688/f1000research.154294.1 · Cited by 9

Forces at play: A qualitative study of risk aversion, policy and decision making for children's physically active play in schools

Jerebine, A., Eyre, E. L. J., Lander, N., Duncan, M. J., & Barnett, L. M. (2024) · Health & Place · doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103373 · Cited by 11

Considerations for using participatory systems modeling as a tool for implementation mapping in chronic disease prevention

Moore, T. R., Hennessy, E., Chusan, Y. A. C., Ashcraft, L. E., & Economos, C. D. (2024) · Annals of Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.12.002 · Cited by 9

Understanding the dynamics driving obesity in socioeconomically deprived urban neighbourhoods: an expert-based systems map

ter Ellen, F., Groeniger, J. O., Stronks, K., Hagenaars, L. L., Kamphuis, C. B. M., Mackenbach, J. D., Beenackers, M. A., Freijer, K., Coenen, P., Poelman, M. P., et al. (2025) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/s12916-024-03798-x · Cited by 9

A participatory systems approach in community health promotion: Lessons learnt from an overall evaluation of a program to reduce health inequities

Wagemakers, A., Elkhuizen, S., Bindels, A., Wachter, M., Niewold, D., Derkzen, M. L., & Thompson, K. (2025) · Evaluation and Program Planning · doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102695 · Cited by 9

New political science analysis of the renewed push for preventive health: ‘Can it be any different this time around?’

Cairney, P., Boswell, J., Mahmood, H., & Bliss, A. (2025) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118568 · Cited by 9

Appraising the Implementation of Complexity Approaches Within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An Assessment Framework for Pre-Implementation Policy Evaluation

Zucca, C., Long, E., Hilton, J., & McCann, M. (2021) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.653588 · Cited by 9

Addressing alcohol-related harms in the local night-time economy: a qualitative process evaluation from a complex systems perspective

McGill, E., Marks, D., Petticrew, M. P., & Egan, M. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050913 · Cited by 9

Assessing policies to reduce adolescent overweight and obesity: Insights from a system dynamics model using data from the Health Behavior in School‐Aged Children study

Romanenko, E., Homer, J. B., Fismen, A., Rutter, H., & Lien, N. (2022) · Obesity Reviews · doi:10.1111/obr.13519 · Cited by 9

Feasibility of a theory-based intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour among contact centre staff: the SUH stepped-wedge cluster RCT

Jepson, R. G., Baker, G., Sivaramakrishnan, D., Manner, J., Parker, R. A., Lloyd, S., & Stoddart, A. (2022) · Public Health Research · doi:10.3310/iexp0277 · Cited by 10

The greatest challenges and solutions to improve children's health and well-being worldwide in the next decade and beyond: Using complex systems and implementation science approaches

Tyack, Z. F. (2023) · Frontiers in Pediatrics · doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1128642 · Cited by 9

A complex systems approach to obesity: a transdisciplinary framework for action

Griffiths, C., Radley, D., Gately, P., South, J., Sanders, G., Morris, M. A., Clare, K., Martin, A., Heppenstall, A. J., McCann, M., et al. (2023) · Perspectives in Public Health · doi:10.1177/17579139231180761 · Cited by 9

Learning from the CO‐CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)

Knai, C., Savona, N., Finegood, D. T., Aguiar, A., Blanchard, L., Conway-Moore, K., Helleve, A., Klepp, K., Lien, N., Łuszczyńska, A., et al. (2023) · Obesity Reviews · doi:10.1111/obr.13624 · Cited by 9

The epidemiologic case for urban health: conceptualizing and measuring the magnitude of challenges and potential benefits

Garber, M. D., Benmarhnia, T., de Nazelle, A. J., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J., & Rueda, D. R. (2024) · F1000Research · doi:10.12688/f1000research.154967.1 · Cited by 9

Navigating the complexity of a collaborative, system-wide public health programme: learning from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of the ActEarly City Collaboratory

Nixon, L., Sheard, L., Sheringham, J., Creaser, A. V., Iqbal, H., Gansallo, P., Mansukoski, L., Bryant, M., & Lockyer, B. (2024) · Health Research Policy and Systems · doi:10.1186/s12961-024-01227-2 · Cited by 9

Unintended consequences of measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Littlecott, H., Krishnaratne, S., Hummel, J., Orban, E., Heinsohn, T., Noel-Storr, A. H., Strahwald, B., Jung‐Sievers, C., Ravens‐Sieberer, U., & Rehfuess, E. A. (2024) · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · doi:10.1002/14651858.cd015397.pub2 · Cited by 9

Tracing the undercurrents: a scoping review of the lifestyle drift concept

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Impact of population distribution shifts in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on type II diabetes incidence in Ireland

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Autonomy-Supportive Interventions

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Shaping Policy on Chronic Diseases through National Policy Dialogs in CHRODIS PLUS

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Microfinance RCTs in Development

Bédécarrats, F., Guérin, I., & Roubaud, F. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198865360.003.0009 · Cited by 10

An Evaluation Framework of a Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Equity Research

Ellington, R., Barajas, C. B., Drahota, A., Meghea, C. I., Uphold, H. S., Scott, J. B., Lewis, E., & Furr-Holden, D. (2022) · American Journal of Evaluation · doi:10.1177/1098214021991923 · Cited by 9

Toolkit article: Approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research

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Exploring the implementation dynamics of the Health Promoting School approach in Europe: a qualitative study among school health representatives

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