Book Review: Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research: A Methodological Handbook
Don de Savigny and colleagues published this book, with McGrawHill, in mid October 2017. http://www.mheducation.co.uk/9780335261321-emea-applied-systems-thinking-for-health-systems-research-a-methodological-handbook
While written for and aimed at a research audience, especially those who want to research systems, this book has much to offer public health professionals who want to understand how they can get their heads round and apply systems approaches.
The chapters provide an introduction to a range of systems issues and provide the lens of a research project or application for each tool.
A useful handbook. For my money, the first chapter on how to use it could have been a bit more user friendly, but as a way of moving from understanding systems theory to apply it, this is a good and useful read.