Dynamic thinking and complexity: considerations for health promotion

Article Dynamic thinking and complexity: considerations for health promotion was published in Journal of Complexity in Health Sciences in June 2020.

The aim of this perspective paper is to present a new and unique viewpoint on existing challenges, fundamental concepts, and prevalent notions on health promotion. Paper focuses on possible implications of a newly implemented Healthy Boost project. We further discuss existing health promotion interventions from the standpoint of dynamic complex systems while exploring the need to foster the cooperation component. Disclosure of these relationships and their utilization for structure optimization and evolution of functional possibilities, through the use of the dynamic characteristics of determined chaos at various levels, demonstrate plausible opportunities for the effective implementation of health promotion projects. The topic of health promotion effectiveness is of societal concern to a wider audience and to the scholarly community in general. Consequently, this perspective piece advances the future direction of application of Healthy Boost project within complexity framework.

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Authors

• Agne Slapsinskaite
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• Justina Vaitkevičiūtė
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• Monika Grincaitė
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• Lukas Galkus
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• Asta Raskiliene
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• Laura Luukkonen
  

  Tampere University of Applied Sciences

• Alfonsas Vainoras
  

  Lithuanian University of Health Sciences