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Centre for Active Lifestyles and Healthy Ageing (ACTLIFE)
Identifying places to intervene in the obesogenic system in North Wales using system mapping.
In Wales, approximately 60% of adults and 25% of children starting school live with unhealthy excess weight. A whole systems approach, using systems science methodologies, is ideally suited for the types of questions encountered in promoting a health weight because intervention targets typically are multilevel, multi-layered and embedded in complex social and environmental systems.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board have identified three priority sub-systems. We will bring a range of stakeholders together to develop a detailed and shared understanding around these sub-systems by creating Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs). CLDs are a visual depiction of the factors and relationships which cause a problem to occur. Emphasis is placed on identifying patterns within CLDs, whereby we can identify “feedback loops” - positive or negative chains of events which reinforce or balance out each other.
We will identify and explain the dominant feedback structure within each sub-system and use these to identify potential places for intervention.
Product due for completion at the end of March 2025.
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