Which best illustrates systems theory?
A) School systems in two different counties each setting up their own independent afterschool exercise programs
B) Father being challenged to stop smoking because his daughter learned of the hazards of smoking from a smoke cessation program at her middle school
C) Hospital requiring all of its nurses to wear an identification badge while on duty
D) Physician in one state deciding to stop accepting Medicaid clients, while another physician in another state begins accepting Medicaid clients
Ans: B
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A community is a complex system of human activity conducted within the context of the social and ecological environment. Every family, neighborhood, workplace, school, and recreational facility is itself a system with its own boundaries, rules, and purpose. These systems overlap to the extent that individual people in each family system participate in the activities or are affected by the decisions made within other systems. Social systems engage in reciprocal exchange or flows of information, energy, resources, and goods or services. Systems within the community are interdependent and interconnected. Change in one system leads to reciprocal changes in interconnected systems. The only example given above that reveals this reciprocal relationship between systems is the one in which the father, who is a member of a family system, is influenced by information learned by his daughter from an overlapping system, her middle school. The other answers reflect systems operating independently.
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