Background Complex systems approaches are increasingly used in health promotion and
noncommunicable disease prevention research, policy and practice. Questions emerge as …

Systems mapping methods are increasingly used to study complex public health issues.
Visualizing the causal relationships within a complex adaptive system allows for more than …

In highly urbanized and unequal Latin America, urban health and health equity research are
essential to effective policymaking. To ensure the application of relevant and context-specific …

This Perspective article presents a novel, participatory scenario development method for
studying the energy transition. It shows how moving towards transdisciplinarity can inform …

In recent decades, urbanization around the world has become an unavoidable trend.
However, rapid urbanization has brought about a number of “urban diseases” which have …

Road infrastructure development in a country has been considered an important predictor of
economic development and prosperity. Hence applying a systematic analysis approach, this …

Climate change is increasing the frequency and the severity of extreme events in river
basins around the world. Efforts to build resilience to these impacts are complicated by the …

Abstract The “Healthy Cities Project” is a well-recognized response to the health challenges
associated with rapid urbanization. While previous studies have adopted qualitative or …

Rapidly growing cities face new and compounding health challenges, leading governments
and donors to seek innovative ways to support healthier, more resilient urban growth. One …

Background The proportion of motor vehicle crash fatalities involving alcohol-impaired
drivers declined substantially between 1982 and 1997, but progress stopped after 1997. The …