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Background: Leadership is critical to making changes at multiple levels
of the social ecological model, including the environmental and policy levels, and
will therefore likely contribute to solutions to the obesity epidemic and other
public health issues. The literature describing the relative leadership styles and
strengths of women ... read moreversus men is mixed and virtually all research comes from sectors
outside of public health. The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify
specific leadership skills and characteristics in women who have successfully created
change predominantly within the food and physical activity environments in their
communities and beyond. The second purpose of this study is to understand best
practices for training and nurturing women leaders, to maximize their effectiveness
in creating social change.
Keywords: Women, Leadership, Public health, Social ecological model,
Obesity prevention.
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- Folta, Sara, Rebecca A. Seguin, Jennifer Ackerman, and Miriam
E. Nelson. "A qualitative study of leadership characteristics among women who
catalyze positive community change." BMC Public Health 12, no. 1 (12, 2012):
1-12.
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