Obesity and Advocacy: A Joint Clinical Perspective and Expert Review from the Obesity Medicine Association and the Obesity Action Coalition - 2024

An objective of advocacy is to foster collective involvement and community engagement, leading to collaborations that help empower patients living with obesity and their clinicians to seek and achieve changes in policy, environment, and societal attitudes. Advocacy may also serve to enhance public awareness, promote prevention, advance clinical research, develop safe and effective evidenced-based therapeutic interventions, and facilitate patient access to comprehensive and compassionate treatment of the complex disease of obesity.