Reviews key lessons from the first two years of the National Cancer Institute’s Initiative on the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS) project, with a focus on the four key systems approaches to tobacco control: organizing, dynamics, networks, and knowledge.
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- Overview Fact Sheet (PDF, 444 KB)
- Major Conclusions Fact Sheet (PDF, 445 KB)
- Presentation Slides (PDF, 1.2 MB)
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Suggested Citation
National Cancer Institute. Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 06-6085, April 2007.
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Chapters and key topics covered within each chapter are listed below. Chapters generally include an introductory section, details on methodology, a chapter summary, research needs, and a reference list.
- Other NCI Tobacco Control Monographs (PDF, 52 KB)
- Illustrations (PDF, 89 KB)
- Foreword (PDF, 66 KB)
- Message from the Series Editor (PDF, 54 KB)
- Preface (PDF, 86 KB)
- Acknowledgments (PDF, 150 KB)
- Acronyms List (PDF, 46 KB)
- Contents (PDF, 138 KB)
- Chapter 1. Overview (PDF, 183 KB)
- Monograph Framework
- Major Conclusions
- Chapter Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Tobacco Control at a Crossroads (PDF, 459 KB)
- Need for a New Approach
- Population-Level Tobacco Control Efforts: Beginnings of an Integrated System
- Current Tobacco Control Research and Practice: Systems Problems
- Chapter 3. Systems Thinking: Potential to Transform Tobacco Control (PDF, 411 KB)
- Systems and Systems Thinking
- Systems Thinking: Toward an Integrated View
- Application of Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control
- Chapter 4. How to Organize: Systems Organizing (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Traditional Management Theory
- Systems Organizing Model
- Collaboratively Constructed Concept Maps for Systems Organizing: Case Studies
- Appendix 4A. Description of Concept-Mapping Methodology
- Chapter 5. How to Anticipate Change in Tobacco Control Systems (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- System Dynamics
- System Dynamics Application of Tobacco Control
- Simulation Results
- Appendix 5A. Detailed Development of a System Dynamics Model
- Chapter 6. Understanding and Managing Stakeholder Networks (PDF, 801 KB)
- Overview of Network Theory
- Effective Organizational Networks
- Value of Organizational Networks
- Application of Network Analysis
- Use of Network Methods for Tobacco Control
- Case Study of Network Analysis in Tobacco Control Evaluation
- Chapter 7. What We Know: Managing the Knowledge Content (PDF, 1 MB)
- Knowledge Management and Translation
- Knowledge Management Concepts
- Framework for Strategy of Knowledge Management and Translation
- Case Study: Knowledge Management in Tobacco Control
- Case Study: Concept Mapping of Knowledge Base for Tobacco Control
- Appendix 7A. 4P-Knowledge Management and Translation Infrastructures: Strategy and Outcome Maps
- Appendix 7B. Discussion Questions Used in National Cancer Institute Review of Knowledge Management and Translation
- Chapter 8. ISIS: Synthesis and Conclusions (PDF, 408 KB)
- Synthesis: Looking Back and Looking Over the Horizon
- General Conclusions
- Specific Conclusions
- Appendix A. Initiative on the Study and Implementation of Systems: A Project History (PDF, 157 KB)
- References
- Appendix B. Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control: A Framework for Implementation (PDF, 287 KB)
- Integrated Systems Thinking: Story Line for the Future
- Putting Systems Thinking into Practice
- Implementing Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control: Open Questions and Next Steps
- References
- Index (PDF, 114 KB)