The Public Health Challenges

Question: Explain how the leaders in the event used a systems thinking approach and how systems thinking affected event outcomes. Be specific and provide examples. Answer: The public health has faced a very persistent challenge in solving the complex population and health issues that include obesity and chronic diseases. These are seen to be deeply embedded in the fabric society. The solutions to such complexity have often needed intervention and engagement of the key stakeholders and institutions in various levels around the state. In the process, system thinking has been used extensively in the health facility to help in solving the persistent problems in the public health sectors. The administrators in the health facilities have embraced the system thinking in solving problems in their institutions and have recorded major successes. Because of the system thinking in organizations, leaders have been able to give a higher attention to the way knowledge is gained and managed in the front to fight the challenges facing the health facilities and in the queue to solve the complex problems in their institutions (Leischow Milstein, 2006). Also, leaders using system thinking have had the advantage of implementing system organization that assist in the fostering of the improvements in the organizational structure as well as the organizational functions. Such leaders have also been able to anticipate and mitigate their effects in the development of the effects in the process of developing interventions. Advantageously, it has been giving the basis in the understanding of the means to measure then in better evaluations (Marshall, 2011). System thinking has been taking complex interventions as systems in their capacity, interacting with other elements in the building blocks of the system where they set unexpected reactions in the absence of the approaches of the system thinking. References Leischow SJ, Milstein B. (2006). Systems thinking Policy and modeling for public health practice. American Journal of Public Health, 96(3):403-405 Marshall, E. S., (2011).Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader. New York, NY: Springer.