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- Social entrepreneurship combines business tactics with social goals to tackle public health issues like obesity, potentially offering more sustainable solutions than traditional sectors.
- The paper explores the growth of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and highlights the significant threat that obesity poses to society, while showcasing examples of successful social ventures combating this issue.
- It identifies additional opportunities for social entrepreneurship in obesity prevention and provides recommendations for future efforts in this field.
Article Abstract
In recent years, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a new field to address social and public health challenges. Social entrepreneurship, which harnesses traditional business practices and market forces to address social challenges, may produce solutions that are more cost-effective and sustainable than those produced by governmental and nonprofit sectors. In this paper, we discuss whether and how social entrepreneurship can be harnessed for obesity prevention by defining and briefly reviewing the rise of social entrepreneurship in the USA, outlining the threat that obesity poses to US society and offering some examples of how social ventures are addressing the problem of obesity. Additional untapped opportunities are also discussed and recommendations given for how social entrepreneurship might impact obesity prevention in the future.
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