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Journal article
Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity
The Lancet (British edition), v 385(9985), pp 2422-2431
13 Jun 2015
PMID: 25703113
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Abstract
Public mobilisation is needed to enact obesity-prevention policies and to mitigate reaction against their implementation. However, approaches in public health focus mainly on dialogue between public health professionals and political leaders. Strategies to increase popular demand for obesity-prevention policies include refinement and streamlining of public information, identification of effective obesity frames for each population, strengthening of media advocacy, building of citizen protest and engagement, and development of a receptive political environment with change agents embedded across organisations and sectors. Long-term support and investment in collaboration between diverse stakeholders to create shared value is also important. Each actor in an expanded coalition for obesity prevention can make specific contributions to engaging, mobilising, and coalescing the public. The shift from a top-down to a combined and integrated bottom-up and top-down approach would need an overhaul of current strategies and reprioritisation of resources.
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- Title
- Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity
- Creators
- Terry T-K Huang - City University of New YorkJohn H Cawley - Cornell UniversityMarice Ashe - ChangeLab SolutionsSergio A Costa - City University of New YorkLeah M Frerichs - University of Nebraska Medical CenterLindsey Zwicker - ChangeLab SolutionsJuan A Rivera - Instituto Nacional de Salud PúblicaDavid Levy - Georgetown University Medical CenterRoss A Hammond - Brookings InstitutionEstelle V Lambert - University of Cape TownShiriki K Kumanyika - University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- The Lancet (British edition), v 385(9985), pp 2422-2431
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000356003700036
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84930927562
- Other Identifier
- 991019312419604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health