COH599: Public Health Foundation

Leischow, S. J., Best, A., Trochim, W. M., Clark, P. I., Gallagher, R. S., Marcus, S. E., & Matthews, E. (2008). Systems Thinking to Improve the Public’s Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(2), S196–S203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.014.
Systems thinking is essential for the public health professional.

Farmer, P.. (2009). Paul Farmer-The need for "systems thinking" in health care [Video], Dartmouth.
Global health pioneer and Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer, on the need to bring "systems thinking" into the discussion of improving the delivery of health care world-wide. Recorded Sept. 21, 2009, during a panel discussion "Reflections on Leadership for Social Change," part of the inauguration of Jim Yong Kim as 17th president of Dartmouth College.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). The value of systems thinking [Video]. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
This video provides an overview of why systems thinking is important and what it means to apply it. It describes why our traditional way of thinking may thwart achieving our intended results or unintentionally create worse issues than the ones we're trying to address. Viewers will learn how to better determine if (and how) an issue can benefit from systems thinking, and the steps required to have a positive effect.

National Institute of Health. (n.d.). About Grants. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The National Institutes of Health are a major funder for public health programs, projects and research. The public health student will benefit from being familiar with the grant application process.

Piane, G. M. (2019). Maternal mortality in Nigeria: A literature review. World Medical & Health Policy, 11, 1.