The meta-volition model: Organizational leadership is the key ingredient in getting society moving, literally!

Increasing public support for food-industry related, obesity prevention policies: The role of a taste-engineering frame and contextualized values

“…The remaining measures of obesity causality, (healthy food affordability and the workplace environment) are derived from the literature (Beaulac et al, 2009;Yancey, 2009). The study also examines additional causal attributes of obesity including fatalism (Shugart, 2011), food addiction (Brownell and Gold, 2012), and the role of food advertising (Zimmerman, 2011).…”

Physical activity: Cinderella or Rodney Dangerfield?

“…However, Brownson and Jones (2009) and Morandi (2009) point to promising signs of progress in that legislators are recognizing the need to translate concern for their constituents' health into physical activity policy intervention, and researchers are recognizing the need to highlight the policy relevance of their findings in plain language. The epidemiological and behavioral research is consistent and compelling in its documentation of the physical and mental health benefits of modest increases in physical activity (Haskell et al, 2009;King and Sallis, 2009) and the systemic opportunities to accomplish such changes in ways that are consistent with human psychology, physiology and evolutionary biology (Donnelly et al, 2009;Eaton et al, 2009;Owen et al, 2009;Yancey, 2009;Zimmerman, 2009). In encouraging findings, grassroots advocacy interests have begun to pool resources to address public safety, youth development, business re-development, environmental justice, educational opportunity and neighborhood access to nutrientrich foods.…”

“…Linking "boisterous" public health leadership and visionary organizational leadership across sectors is essential in driving action (Yancey, 2009). Help is on the way.…”

Creating a healthy milieu for all. Essay on the current state and future of preventive medicine

“…After 40 years of attempting to counsel and educate individuals to influence their behaviors, our field is finally coming to embrace the necessity of policy and environmental change in achieving and sustaining individual behavior change. With tobacco control as the model of late 20th-century public health success, a number of us have begun to distil its lessons in defining a course of community-level action to produce population-wide improvements in physical activity, nutrient-rich food consumption and averting weight gain (e.g., Economos et al, 2001;Kumanyika et al, 2002Kumanyika et al, , 2008Trickett et al, 2011;Yancey, 2009;Yancey and Sallis, 2009). I have argued that a quintessential lesson or "kernel" of intervention effectiveness and sustainability (Embry and Biglan, 2008) reinforces a cornerstone of health promotion: making the active or nutrient-rich food or beverage choice the default option or path of least resistance, and the sedentary or nutrient-poor choice less convenient and accessible.…”