Health Care – Objective 1
Provide professional education and training to health care providers on healthy eating, active living and healthy weight.
Sample Activities:
- Educate health care providers on: breastfeeding, nutrition, physical activity, screen time, BMI, role of family, community resources.
- Provide training on conducting BMI screening and healthy weight counseling in both a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner.
- Address nutrition (to include breastfeeding), physical activity, overweight and obesity as a routine component of health professional curricula, including medical, residency, nursing, dietetics, health education, and social work.
- Provide education on breastfeeding promotion and support.
- Encourage physicians to follow clinical guidelines for the prevention, assessment, and treatment of obesity.
- Encourage healthcare professionals to attend professional development programs on current guidelines, evidence-based programs, and resources in the prevention of overweight and obesity.
- Identify and promote a curriculum for physicians that focuses on counseling parents in a concise, effective way about overweight in children.
Tools:
Roadmaps for Clinical Practice series: Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity
About BMI for Children and Teens
The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions
Does Breastfeeding Reduce the Risk of Pediatric Overweight?
The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative – Information for Health Care Professionals
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Breastfeeding Residency Curriculum
Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Toolkit
Pediatric Obesity Clinical Tools
Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs in Children and Adolescents