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    • Health Promotion
    • Systems Science

    Background:

    • Health promoting schools (HPS) adopt a comprehensive philosophy for enhancing student and personnel health.
    • HPS initiatives are complex systems involving interconnected components targeting multiple levels simultaneously.
    • These initiatives operate within intricate physical, biological, ecological, social, political, and organizational relationships.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce systems thinking and complex adaptive systems (CAS) concepts for understanding HPS.
    • To explore how systems thinking can manage the development and sustainability of HPS.
    • To provide a framework for addressing challenges in complicated and complex health promotion settings.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptualizing HPS as complex adaptive systems.
    • Applying systems thinking principles to analyze HPS interventions.
    • Exploring four key areas of systems thinking: knowledge, networks, models, and organizing.

    Main Results:

    • Systems thinking emphasizes the nonlinear, dynamic, and adaptive nature of HPS.
    • Interconnectedness and interrelationships are crucial for HPS success.
    • CAS insights illuminate strategies for managing complex health promotion initiatives.

    Conclusions:

    • Systems thinking and CAS provide a valuable perspective for HPS development and sustainability.
    • This approach helps address challenges in multi-level and multi-site health promotion settings.
    • Understanding complex systems is key to improving health outcomes in schools.