K, Intersectoral collaboration, Integrated method, Health policy, Childhood obesity, Prevention, Behavior change, Organizational alter, Nearby government Correspondence: anna-marie.hendriksmaastrichtuniversity.nl 1 Academic Collaborative Centre for Public Well being Limburg, Regional Public Overall health Service, Geleen, The Netherlands Full list of author data is out there at the end of the article2013 Hendriks et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This can be an Open Access short article distributed beneath the terms with the Inventive Commons Attribution License (http:creativecommons.orglicensesby2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, supplied the original function is effectively cited.Hendriks et al. Implementation Science 2013, 8:46 http:www.implementationscience.comcontent81Page 2 ofBackground This article addresses crucial inquiries that arise inside the context of integrated public wellness policies (e.g., `Healthy Public Policy’ [1] or `Health in All Policies’ [2-4]) and introduces a conceptual framework to study and guide their development. In most countries, such policies are developed by local policy-makers who perform inside local governments (i.e., municipal authorities) [3-12], so we concentrate on policy improvement at local government level. We focus on policies that aim to stop `wicked’ public 
overall health troubles [13,14] (e.g., childhood obesity [15]), given that such complications defy conventional intra-sectoral problemsolving approaches and consequently call for innovative integrated approaches in which overall health and non-health sectors collaborate (i.e., intersectoral collaboration) [16-19]. Regardless of variations between nations or involving the states of federal nations in the involvement of national or provincial governments, the roles, functions, and types of governance structures [20], and in policy approaches to public well being complications (e.g., smoking or gun manage), the core of policy development for wicked public health concerns remains equivalent in most nations [21-26]. Within the Netherlands, for example, the national government sets priorities each 4 years which might be then operationalized (i.e., developed into a well being policy document) PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21258973 by regional policy-makers [9-12], whilst within the United states of america, most policy priorities are set by state (instead of national) government then operationalized by local policymakers [25,26]. The core of public health policy-making with respect to wicked problems remains the require to implement an integrated method aimed at collaboration amongst distinctive (well being and non-health) sectors. Assisting neighborhood policy-makers, public wellness professionals and researchers in developing and implementing integrated public health policies requires a conceptual framework to study and guide this development and implementation work [17,18], so our purpose was to develop such a framework. Our framework was mostly inspired by the `Behavior Change Wheel’ (BCW) (Figure 1) that was lately presented by Michie and colleagues [27]. Because the BCW was developed from an in depth evaluation of current frameworks and has been tested in other theoretical domains (primary implementation) [27,28], it offered a sound basis for the improvement of our own framework. We extended the BCW so it might be utilised as: a practical tool to help local policymakers and these who help them in overcoming barriers to creating and implementing integrated public overall health policies to prevent wicked public health Hypericin web difficulties; and as a theoretical too.