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AbstractThe contemporary public health model for injury and violence prevention is a four‐step process, which has been difficult to fully actualize in real‐world contexts. This difficulty results from challenges in bridging science to practice and developing and applying population‐level approaches. Prevention programmes and policies are embedded within and impacted by a range of system‐level factors, which must be considered and actively managed when addressing complex public health challenges involving multiple sectors and stakeholders. To address these concerns, a systemic approach to population‐level injury and violence prevention is being developed and explored by the Division of Analysis, Research, and Practice Integration in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This article makes the case for and provides a high‐level overview of this systemic approach, its various components, and how it is being applied in one governmental unit.

The contemporary public health model for injury and violence prevention is a four-step process, which has been difficult to fully actualize in real-world contexts. This difficulty results from challenges in bridging science to practice and developing and applying population-level approaches. Prevention programmes and policies are embedded within and impacted by a range of system-level factors, which must be considered and actively managed when addressing complex public health challenges involving multiple sectors and stakeholders. To address these concerns, a systemic approach to population-level injury and violence prevention is being developed and explored by the Division of Analysis, Research, and Practice Integration in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This article makes the case for and provides a high-level overview of this systemic approach, its various components, and how it is being applied in one governmental unit.

AbstractSystems thinking principles are increasingly recognized as an important part of public health research and practice. However, the extent to which systems thinking is being integrated into public health practice, and its impact on health outcomes, is largely unknown. This is in part due to the paucity of options for measuring systems thinking at the organizational level and in the context of public health practice. Building on existing frameworks of public health competencies, infrastructure, and systems thinking principles, this article proposes a conceptual model and corresponding indicators for measuring organizational systems thinking and application within state public health departments. We describe our process for developing this model and indicators, drawing from both research and practice‐based evidence on systems thinking, and offer a set of indicators for measuring organizational‐level systems thinking in the context of public health practice.