Table 1.

Components of the Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD) evaluation, and aspects of the system which they shed light on.

RD Evaluation Components	System Attributes which these Data Illuminate (Adapted from [20])
Logic model built on initial description of how RD would work [23], and scoping review [12]	Causal pathways within the RD systems (food, alcohol, physical activity, health at work)
Participant interviews [9] Analysis of organisational case studies including documents and interviews Media analysis [24]	Structures and processes in place Interests at play Feedback loops, and barriers to change
Qualitative systems dynamic modelling [15,25,26] using Causal Loop Diagrams (as an analytic tool) [27] built on data from pledge analyses, progress report analyses, qualitative data from interviews and organisational case studies (created as part of the current paper)	Drivers, interests, ways of working
Analysis of RD pledges [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,24]
Analyses of evidence base [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,24]	Probability of system changing in response to specific pledges
Analyses of specific pledges [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,24]	Identifying whether change happened in a particular part of the system