Table 2 Theme names and a brief description following the thematic analysis.

From: Integrating health into the complex urban planning policy and decision-making context: a systems thinking analysis

Theme and sub-theme names

CLD representation

1. Advocacy through relationships

Loops R4 and R5.

2. Re-framing knowledge to change norms

Loops R6 and connected to B3.

3. Representing community interests and inequity

Loops B1, B3 and R8.

4. Disrupting problematic constraints to healthy planning

Loops B2, B3, R4, R5, R7, R8.

4a. Urban economics

4b. Land-use politics

4c. Legal framework governing urban planning

5. Avoiding failure through design

Loops R1, R2, R9 and B1.

  1. CLD causal loop diagram.