Pronk Nicolaas P, Narayan K M Venkat
HealthPartners, Health Promotion Department, HealthPartners Institute, Department of Population Health, Minneapolis, MN, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Dr Pronk), Boston, MA; and Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (Dr Narayan), Atlanta, GA.
J Occup Environ Med. 2016 Feb;58(2):123-6. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000648.
The aim of the study was to address the need for explicit recognition that obesity is complex in its biological, social, psychological, and societal determinants and ramifications, and that applications of programs to address obesity at the workplace need to recognize this setting as a complex social environment. Efforts to address this complexity more meaningfully demand intentional application of systems science principles and approaches.
Along with several relevant examples, a description of systems sciences and the application of its principles to obesity and the workplace setting are presented.
Systems science provides a method to explore large proportions of unexplored potential and unexplained variation in obesity research as applied to the workplace.
本研究的目的是满足一种需求，即明确认识到肥胖在其生物学、社会、心理和社会决定因素及后果方面具有复杂性，并且在工作场所开展解决肥胖问题的项目需要将该环境视为一个复杂的社会环境。更有意义地应对这种复杂性的努力需要有意应用系统科学原理和方法。
本文结合几个相关示例，介绍了系统科学及其原理在肥胖问题和工作场所环境中的应用。
系统科学提供了一种方法，可用于探索肥胖研究中很大一部分未被探索的潜力和无法解释的变异，这些研究应用于工作场所。
