title: The prevention moment: a post-partisan approach to obesity policy.
abstract: Multi-sector, broad legislative support for obesity policy is of critical importance to successful system-level implementation and sustainability. To win such support, policy-makers should consider the adoption of a "post-partisan" decision-making process and governance structure whose features include: the involvement of multi-sector and cross-partisan decision-makers from the very beginning of planning and policy debate; the necessity that all participants disclose their competing interests; and the use of analytical techniques to synthesize and select the most innovative ideas from among all those considered. Post-partisanship therefore differs from traditional political compromise; it is an action-oriented, values-based model that embraces an aggressive commitment to collaboration, innovation, intellectual diversity, and building ongoing relationships across sectors and across partisan lines in order to pursue lasting public health solutions.
authors.affiliation: Health Strategy Innovation Cell, Massey College, University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seeman
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011057:Politics; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D014481:United States