ASPH Education Committee
Master's Degree in Public Health
Core Competency Development Project
Version 2.1 (June 2006)
Systems Thinking List -pdf page #25 (shown below)
Systems Thinking membership: pdf page # 40
http://www.asph.org/UserFiles/FinalVersion2.1.pdf
Systems Thinking
The ability to recognize system level properties that result from dynamic interactions among human and social systems and how they affect the relationships among individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and environments.
Competencies: Upon graduation a student with an MPH should be able to ...
1) Indentify characteristics of a system.
2) Identify unintended consequences produced by changes made to a public heatlh system.
3) Provide examples of feedback loops and "stocks and flows" within a public health system.
4) Explain how systems (e.g., individuals, social networks,organizations, and communities) may be viewed as systems within systems in the analysis of public health problems.
5) Explain how systems models can be tested and validated.
6) Explain how the contexts of gender, race, poverty, history, migration, and culture are important in the design of interventions within public health systems.
7) Illustrate how changes in public health systems (including input, processes, and output) can be measured.
8) Analyze inter-relationships among systems that influence the quality of life of people in their communities.
9) Analyze the effects of political, social, and economic policies on public health systems at the local, state, national, and international levels.
10) Analyze the impact of global trends and interdependencies on public health related problems and systems.
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