Power Prism framework for health advocacy: A case of dietary supplements for weight loss and muscle building sold to youth in Massachusetts municipalities

Yergaliyev K.A. Fresina L. Ayaganova A. Austin S.B.
August 2025 Modestum LTD

Electronic Journal of General Medicine
2025 #22 Issue 4

This study applied the Power Prism advocacy framework as a strategy design tool to inform an 18-month case study conducted in four Massachusetts municipalities (USA). The case study addressed the weak regulation and easy access to potentially dangerous weight-loss and muscle-building dietary supplements for youth in Massachusetts municipalities. The Power Prism advocacy framework is made up of six “power tools”: research and data collection, coalition building and maintenance, fundraising and development, grassroots advocates and key contacts, media advocacy, and decision-maker advocacy. Based on the case study, a municipality-targeted advocacy strategy was developed for Harvard University’s strategic training initiative for the prevention of eating disorders to support their efforts to persuade policymakers to strengthen regulation of weight-loss and muscle-building supplements sold to youth. The detailed application of the framework provides a replicable and innovative model for other public health initiatives seeking to promote policy changes at different levels of government.

adolescent health , dietary supplements , muscle building , Power Prism framework , public health advocacy , weight loss

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School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
Voices for Healthy Kids, American Heart Association, Washington, DC, United States
Zhubanov University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

School of Medicine
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Voices for Healthy Kids
Zhubanov University
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

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