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About the Course

This course provides an introduction to systems thinking and systems models in public health. Problems in public health and health policy tend to be complex with many actors, institutions and risk factors involved. If an outcome depends on many interacting and adaptive parts and actors the outcome cannot be analyzed or predicted with traditional statistical methods. Systems thinking is a core skill in public health and helps health policymakers build programs and policies that are aware of and prepared for unintended consequences. An important part of systems thinking is the practice to integrate multiple perspectives and synthesize them into a framework or model that can describe and predict the various ways in which a system might react to policy change. Systems thinking and systems models devise strategies to account for real world complexities. This work was coordinated by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the World Health Organization, with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. Additional support was provided by the Department for International Development (DFID) through a grant (PO5467) to Future Health Systems research consortium. © World Health Organization 2014 All rights reserved. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted and dashed lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted, the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by the World Health Organization to verify the information contained in this publication. However, the published material is being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader. In no event shall the World Health Organization be liable for damages arising from its use. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health has a non-exclusive license to use and reproduce the material....

Top reviews

SS

May 28, 2017

The course is easy to understand and the lecturer are well read about the subject. It will be very helpful to me in near future working as a public health worker

SV

Mar 11, 2018

The course is one of the best that I've attended on Coursera. This will be highly useful in my current course "Healthcare Operations Management" that I am offering for MBA students in India.

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By abhishek a

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Sep 30, 2020

The questions in the week 4 are a little tricky, but overall it's a good overview of the public health system

By Sayan D

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Mar 29, 2017

A very hands on approach to systems thinking that introduces you to modeling software for real life use.

By Okpetu E

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Mar 30, 2017

Broadens my view of how to solve public health problems involving multiple stakeholders and actors

By Annabella R

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Apr 30, 2017

Great materials, variety of speakers, lectures,examples and models !! Thank you.

By Ana L M

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Oct 12, 2020

Very interesting course to explore the overall perspective of systems thinking

By Sarah W

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Nov 14, 2022

VERY WELL TAUGHT! INDEPTH KNOWLEDGE PROVIDED! THANKS TO ALL PROFESSORS.X

By Hassan N

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Dec 17, 2025

good starter course to understand the ecosystem of policy making

By Alex S

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Jul 21, 2017

Relevant new information, presented in an understandable format!

By Afusatu S

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Nov 8, 2022

this course is very useful and will help me i my career path.

By Rashidi W

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Jun 5, 2017

This increased my thinking around how systems thinking work.

By Oluwasegun J O

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Aug 9, 2019

Great course. I regularly looked forward to my next class.

By Adan R V

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Feb 24, 2018

Better quality in the presentation and graphics used,

By Robert J P

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May 17, 2020

A great mix of theory and practice

By GIRISH B

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May 20, 2019

More hands-on modelling will help.

By Miyabi N

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Sep 6, 2024

Very good introductory course!

By Eunice N K A

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Aug 19, 2024

Great learning opportunity

By Sultan A

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May 10, 2021

It's a very hard course

By Ibrahima I F D

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Mar 18, 2025

Très intéressant

By Sateesh K S

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Apr 2, 2026

good course

By Gunther B

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May 31, 2017

Very good.

By Suneel K K

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Apr 3, 2026

Good

By Prashant P

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Apr 3, 2026

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By Tara D

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Mar 15, 2022

By Elle L

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Apr 21, 2020

This is a great course if you're looking for a high level introduction and overview into Systems Thinking, with a public health spin. It would have benefited from a deeper dive into case studies. I felt it could have gone much more into detail on the public health aspect, but the overview and explanation on public health systems modeling was helpful.