Systems thinking and design thinking go hand in hand🤝

This article draws out the differences between systems thinking and design thinking and how they fit together.

www.ideou.com/blogs/inspir...

Policies to help people walk and cycle create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than their costs.

This research strongly suggests Low Traffic Neighbourhoods generate a very high return on investment.

On Sunday I ran the Barcelona Marathon - my third in 11 months

The Sagrada Família is a surreal backdrop for a run although running with the Spanish sun bearing down on you is a different kind of challenge.

In true running spirit - that was torture, I can’t wait to do it again!

24% of physicians say more than half or almost all of their workload is due to illnesses or conditions related to the wider determinants of health

www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/census-...

Individual behaviour change vs structural factors

Much like indicators of good health in our bodies, systems have telltale signs of health

Policy Lab UK have created and tested Healthy System Indicators which can help stakeholders assess a system and diagnose where interventions can be made to ensure the system can improve

To find meaning in our work, we should change the way we think about it

In this brilliant article, John Coleman suggests that for most people, purpose in work is built, rather than found

'Purpose isn’t magic — it’s something we must consciously pursue and create'

This article in Harvard Business Review argues that we should simplify strategy planning

Strategy can be as simple as answering three questions with deep honesty:

1️⃣Where are we now?

2️⃣ Where do we want to go?

3️⃣ What is a credible path to get there?

🚨 Excellent evidence review alert 🚨

There is a need for researchers and policy- and decision-makers to move beyond single disciplinary paradigms to see the problems of, and solutions to, health inequalities in their entirety.

www.who.int/publications...

How much physical activity is needed to reduce the detrimental health consequences of sedentary time?

If people are sedentary for most of the day, even small amounts of physical activity will lower the risk of death substantially

This is an excellent article which makes the point that there is a new zeitgeist around complexity and systems change.

Value is created, and breakthroughs are made through the strength, number and quality of relationships in systems.

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I hope all this training in wet, windy and icy conditions puts me in good stead for a marathon in… Barcelona