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These challenges reflect underlying system dynamics that are insufficiently captured by linear assessments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This narrative review synthesised evidence published between 2015 and 2025 and examined diabetes care in Kenya through a systems\u2010thinking approach combining the WHO Health System Building Blocks (HSBB) and the Intervention\u2010Level Framework (ILF). The combined framework enabled classification of system weaknesses according to subsystem (e.g. governance, workforce, financing) and depth of leverage (from structural elements to paradigms).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Twenty\u2010eight studies met the inclusion criteria. Across all HSBB domains, recurrent problems, such as inconsistent policy implementation, shortages of trained staff, supply\u2010chain disruptions, insufficient financing, and weak information systems, interacted through reinforcing feedback loops that reduced continuity, quality, and equity of care. Nutrition\u2010related findings appeared less frequently but highlighted significant gaps in diabetes self\u2010management education, food access, and cultural norms. Application of the HSBB\u2010ILF framework revealed that many barriers extend beyond structural deficits (ILF Level 1) into deeper system features including weak feedback mechanisms (Level 2), fragmented organisational arrangements (Level 3), unstable or reactive system goals (Level 4), and entrenched paradigms that deprioritize NCDs (Level 5).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Diabetes care in Kenya functions as a complex adaptive system in which structural, organisational, financial, and sociocultural factors interact to shape outcomes. Sustainable improvement will require coordinated, multi\u2010level strategies that strengthen governance, workforce capacity, supply chains, and information systems while also addressing community realities, food insecurity, and cultural beliefs. 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