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Investing in Leaders: The APPEAL Policy Change Model

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Rod Lew, MPH , Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership, Oakland, CA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
While it may be necessary for AA and NHPI communities and other priority populations to initially focus their health efforts on individual level behavioral changes, it is critical that public health efforts strive toward creating policy or systems level changes as well.  Policy level change ultimately has a greater impact on a larger part of the community and is usually more sustainable and cost effective over time. For this reason, APPEAL has developed a 4-prong Policy Change Model to address policy or systems change on multiple levels.

The APPEAL Policy Change Model focuses on four levels of policy change including:

  • The community level, where tobacco or obesity is not always a high priority.
  • The mainstream institutional level, where priority populations have not been the priority.
  • The legislative level, where neither priority populations nor tobacco nor obesity are priorities.
  • The corporate level (i.e. tobacco industry or food industry), where priority populations have been the priority.

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Describe the APPEAL four prong policy change model. Compare change at the community level, mainstream institutional level, the legislative level, and the corporate level.

Keyword(s): Asian and Pacific Islanders, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Mr Lew has an MPH and works with the Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL). As Executive Director of APPEAL he has been directly involved with APPEAL in the developed a 4-prong Policy Change Model to address policy or systems change at multiple levels.
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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