Public Health - Environmental
EXAMPLE
System thinking diagram for COVID-19 can help to depict the casual connections of the elements such as the source of the infection, its spread among the population, its host and protective measures within a system. It also explains how changes in one component cascade in changes in others which can affect the entire system.
The elements in the prepared system thinking diagram are number of susceptible people, environmental contamination ( Infectious droplets on surfaces), person to person spread through contact, COVID-19 testing, handwashing, social distancing and isolation, hospitalization, treatment, personal protective equipment like masks, quarantine, number of COVID-19 cases, number of mortality and recovered cases.