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The arrows connecting the different pictures

The arrows show where one set of influences has an impact on another. Looking at the map, you’ll see an arrow that goes from ‘Physical Health’ to ‘Mental Health’. This means that the set of things within ‘Physical Health’ has an impact on the set of things within ‘Mental Health’. In that particular example, you’ll see another arrow going back the other way – that’s because we think ‘Mental Health’ has an effect on ‘Physical Health’ as well.

The reason we’ve used two single arrows is so we can break the map down into specific relationships more easily and also to remind us that the type of impacts described by the two arrows may be quite different.

 

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