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Improving Food and Beverage Standards in State Government: An Advocate's Story

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Victor Colman, BA, JD , Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition (WA State), Seattle, WA
     
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Introduction: Guidelines and procurement policies supporting healthy and sustainable food and beverage service at institutions are proposed to improve the dietary quality of populations. In October 2013, Washington State’s governor issued a statewide wellness Executive Order 13-06 (EO) requiring that foods and beverages sold or served by executive branch agencies and their programs meet the Washington State Healthy Nutrition Guidelines—a policy that will affect an estimated 67,000 individuals. This presentation will describe the multi-year policy development process that lead to the EO enactment

Approach:  I will describe how the enactment of this policy followed the key steps of a typical (yet comprehensive) policy development approach, including: partnership development, issue identification, determination of options, choice of policy, as well as the development and implementation of an advocacy plan(with a specific focus on key messages used in the advocacy process).

Results: The actual policy itself will be described and analyzed against the initial policy proposal from three years prior to demonstrate the growth and development of this issue area.

Discussion: Procurement policies for public (and private) entities are relatively new creatures. The policy advocacy approach described here can serve as a model for other groups interested in promoting this topic area.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Identify the critical elements of a comprehensive procurement policy at a state level Describe the policy development process that is unique to this issue area, including policy research analysis and key message development Provide guidance to other jurisdictions interested in proposing similar procurement policies

Keyword(s): Advocacy, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked 30 years in public health (both in public and private settings), developing and implementing policy solutions across multiple topical areas, including alcohol, tobacco, healthy eating and active living. I am also a long-time trainer in understanding and deconstructing policy development to the public health and human services field.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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