TY - JOUR ID - 3808 TI - Can Systems Thinking Become “The Way We Do Things?”; Comment on “What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Holmes, Bev J. AD - Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 10 IS - 5 SP - 284 EP - 286 KW - Systems Thinking KW - Research Co-Production KW - Knowledge Translation DO - 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.70 N2 - In “What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health,” Haynes et al glean two important insights from the policy-makers they interview. First: active promotion of systems thinking may work against its champions. Haynes and colleagues’ findings support a backgrounding of systems thinking; more important for policy-makers than understanding the finer details of systems thinking is working in situations of mutual learning and shared expertise. Second: coproduction may be getting short shrift in prevention research. Most participant comments were not about systems thinking, but about the benefits of working across sectors. Operationalizing the ‘co’ in co-production is not easy, but it may be where the pay-off will be for prevention researchers, who must understand the critical success factors of co-production and its potential pitfalls, to capitalize on its significant opportunities. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3808.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3808_627b0c41956f6357ac3313c76f05efde.pdf ER -