Obesity, Integral Leadership, and Health Policy

Combating the complexities of obesity requires an integral leadership approach at national, state, and local levels. Policies at each of these levels must employ ethical humanistic care that incorporates understanding of the social determinants of health. The aim of this paper is to examine the potential policy influences that the interrelated causes and effects of obesity have at individual and population levels. Further, the aim is to increase health professional awareness of how they can serve as integral leaders in health reform to alleviate the obesity epidemic.