Healthcare

• Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Health Care Settings
  December 2006
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• New AAP Statement: Active Healthy Living: Prevention of Childhood Obesity Through Increased Physical Activity
  Physicians and health care professionals can help prevent and curb childhood obesity by working with families and communities to improve nutrition and encourage physical activity, especially through in-school programs, according to this American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement. The recommendations include that physicians regularly assess a child's weight, diet, and level of physical activity and that physicians and health care professionals aggressively advocate for specific changes in the school environment to support better nutrition and increased physical activity for students. The statement is attached and is also available on the AAP website by subscription or fee:
  www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/may06physicalactivity.htm
  Download: Pediatrics - Active Healthy Living [137k pdf file]
• California Department of Health Services Breastfeeding Program
  The Model Hospital Policy Recommendations Toolkit includes policy recommendations and a hospital self appraisal questionnaire. Look for this resource under "Related Activities" on this webpage. While you are there, check out the other resources available from this source for promoting breastfeeding.
  www.mch.dhs.ca.gov/programs/bfp/
• Health Plans Emerging As Pragmatic Partners Against Obesity
  The National Institute for Health Care Management released this report in April 2005 which describes cutting-edge obesity initiatives in eleven health plans across the country and features seven essays on the obesity problem contributed by leading thinkers among a cross-section of stakeholders.
  Download: Health Plans - Partners Against Obesity [720k pdf file]
• Pediatricians Lack Confidence in Managing Obesity - UNC Chapel Hill Study
  If North Carolina reflects what is happening nationally, most pediatricians across the country lack confidence in their ability to treat obesity a new study shows. The research, conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that only 12 percent of pediatricians surveyed felt effective in treating overweight children. Almost 40 percent, however, thought that they and their colleagues could handle the problem better if things were different.
  www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun05/perrin4061005.htm