Healthcare Systems and Providers
Healthcare Systems and Providers

The Healthcare Domain brings together healthcare systems, plans, and providers to enhance care and resources for the prevention and reduction of childhood obesity.

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Childhood Obesity Prevention Tools for Physicians

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About the Healthcare Domain:


Next meeting:

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Community Health Improvement Partners
(5095 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite 105, San Diego, CA 92123)

Visit the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative Calendar for a complete schedule of upcoming meetings.

Domain Champions:

James Beaubeaux, San Diego County Medical Society
Cheri Fidler, Rady Children's Hospital
Phyllis Hartigan, MPH, Rady Children's Hospital
Tanya Dansky, MD, Children's Physicians Medical Group

COI Staff Contact:

Cheryl Moder, Senior Director, Collective Impact, 858.609.7961, email
JuliAnna Arnett, Senior Manager, 858.609.7962, email
Melanie Briones, Senior Project Manager, 858.609.7976, email
Melanie Cohn, Manager, 858.609.7963, email
Marie Lawrence, Coordinator, 858.609.7964, email

Domain Summary:


The Healthcare Domain operates with the purpose of influencing healthcare systems, including health plans and providers, to implement policy and environmental strategies that contribute to the prevention and reduction of childhood obesity. The domain provides a forum for a number of healthcare stakeholders, including (but not limited to) hospitals, community clinics, insurers, physicians, universities and community-based organizations.  For a complete overview of this domain's objectives and activities, click here.

Healthcare Domain Strategies:


The following is a partial list of strategies that aim to engage healthcare systems and providers to prevent childhood obesity. A complete list of strategies can be located in Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Prevention Action Plan.

  • Include culturally appropriate obesity prevention, screening, counseling and referrals in routine clinical practice, based on evidence-based practice guidelines.
  • Provide and participate in ongoing education and training for healthcare providers and health profession students in the following areas:
    • obesity prevention
    • obesity treatment
    • advocacy
    • cultural competency
  • Include healthy weight gain and other obesity prevention messaging in routine clinical practice for pregnant women and families.
  • Model healthy eating and active living in all healthcare settings.

For a complete list of healthcare domain strategies, please see the Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Action Plan.

Partners partners are supporting healthcare systems and providers to implement these strategies through the following activities:

  • Engaging healthcare systems, including healthcare plans and providers, to support and advocate for healthy systems, policy and environmental change.
  • Providing resources, support and technical assistance to healthcare providers and stakeholders.
  • Providing a forum in which healthcare stakeholders can share and leverage resources.

Workplans:


The following documents are project outlines for this domain's current activities:

Accomplishments:


These common ambitions and commitment have provided domain partners with the capability to achieve better healthcare for children. Recent accomplishments include:

  • Supporting Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies' efforts to educate pediatricians and OB/GYNs about WIC services, the importance of breastfeeding, and key messages related to childhood obesity prevention; successfully reached over 200 healthcare providers.
  • Engaging local hospital systems in the Nutrition in Healthcare Leadership Team to promote healthy, sustainable food practices in hospitals.
  • Enhancing clincial practice by creating a "menu" of specific actions healthcare providers can take to advocate for prevention of childhood obesity in the communities they serve.

Obesity Prevention Activities for Children Age 0-5:


The following activities impact San Diego County children age 0-5:

  • Supporting Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies' efforts to educate pediatricians and OB/GYNs about WIC services, the importance of breastfeeding, and key messages related to childhood obesity prevention; successfully reached over 200 healthcare providers.
  • Developing written materials for pediatricians to attach to physical examination forms that are returned to preschools upon enrollment.  Materials include American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for beverage consumption (including sugar-sweetened beverages) for children from birth to age five, and lists of books and websites that promote health.

Resources:

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211 San Diego Physical Activity & Nutrition Database

211 San Diego is a phone- and web-based resource and referral service that links San Diego County residents with information on community agencies that provide health and human service programs.

Addressing Childhood Obesity: Practical Office-based Resources and Strategies, HEDIS Measures, Latino Cultural Competency and Real Life Case Studies

This web-based training is available to a wide range of healthcare providers interested in resources and strategies to combat childhood obesity in clinical practice.  Participants may be eligible for 2.0 CME credits.

Breastfeeding Taskforce of Greater Los Angeles

 

 

The Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles is dedicated to improving the health and well being of infants and families through education, outreach, and advocacy to promote and support breastfeeding.

Childhood Obesity Prevention Advocacy Tools for Physicians

These documents have been designed in collaboration with the Schools & After-school and Early Childhood domains.  They are to be used as resources to assist physicians in their efforts to advocate for childhood obesity prevention.

 

 

CMA Foundation & CAHP- Child & Adolescent Obesity Provider Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to equip health care providers with strategies to assess and treat overweight and at-risk for overweight in pediatric patients, and to offer pertinent information for providers to consider when discussing healthy lifestyles and weight management with patients.

CMA Foundation- Physicians for Healthy Communities Toolkit

This toolkit provides resources and instruction for healthcare professionals in conducting school board advocacy and practice management related to childhood obesity prevention and reduction.  Supplemental resources to the toolkit can be found on the CMA Foundation's Physician Toolkits & Resources web page.

Community Health Brief: Proceedings from the 4th Annual Anderson Memorial Conference

The 4th Annual Anderson Memorial Conference featured both medical and dental speakers on different obesity prevention protocols including the HOPE online program (Health and Obesity: Prevention and Education) and motivational interviewing.  This resource offers medical and dental professionals effective and innovative tools to combat obesity.

Dairy Council of CA resources for Health Professionals

 

 

Dairy Council of California offers free resources to California health professionals. All materials are available in English and Spanish.

 

Health Care without Harm: Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge

 

 

 

 

By supporting the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge, healthcare facilities are demonstrating leadership by sending an important signal to the marketplace about their interest in local, nutritious, sustainable food and modeling healthy food practices.

Health & Obesity: Prevention & Education (HOPE Project)

 

 

The Health and Obesity: Prevention and Education (HOPE) project is a multidisciplinary, healthy living-counseling curriculum that educates clinicians on how to recognize children at risk for obesity and its co-morbidities and how to promote healthy weight among children and their families.

 

 

Key Steps

The Center for Healthier Communities at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego (CHC) designed a series of Key Steps handouts outlining six key steps to prevent overweight in kids.  These handouts offer providers a quick and simple resource for ensuring parents with children, ages 0 -4, receive key messages for preventing obesity in the home environment.

Toolkit for Healthy Living

A collection of resources for use by physicians that are counseling families with a child at risk or suffering from overweight or obesity.

SDIR-BMI

San Diego Regional Immunization Registry (SDIR) contains a feature that allows users to record childhood BMI.  This presentation offers information on BMI surveillance of local children and the partnership between SDIR, San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative, and Altarum Institute, a national healthcare research institute.

Workplace Lactation (HealthyWorks)

This HealthyWorks resource promotes good lactation policies in the workplace.  Breastfeeding is one of the first lines of defense against childhood obesity, and this resource allows mothers and employers to advocate for clean and private breastfeeding spaces at work.

Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) Home Page

The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) is an invitation for healthcare organizations across the country to join the shift to a more sustainable business model, and a challenge for them to address the health and environmental impacts of their industry. Through their website, HHI offers a suite of tools intended to make the fulfillment of this mission as easy as possible.

HHI Healthier Food Challenge

Current methods of food production, processing, packaging and distribution in the U.S. have negatively impacted human health and the environment. Health care providers have the power to counter these trends by purchasing more environmentally-sustainable foods and by serving healthier meals and beverages to patients, employees, visitors and the communities they serve. This Healthier Hospitals Initiative resource provides healthcare systems a toolkit for transforming their food environments through a Balanced Menu Challenge, a Healthy Beverages Challenge, and a Local/Sustainable Food Challenge.
Nutrition in Healthcare Leadership Team: Leading by Example This presentation offers an overview of the mission, vision, goals, and accomplishments of the Nutrition in Healthcare Leadership Team at the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initative.

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Quick Facts

  • Overweight children are far more likely to be obese as adults (California Center of Public Health Advocacy, 2009)
  • If today’s current trend continues, it is anticipated that 1 in 3 children born in the US after the year 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 2009).
  • One in four children in San Diego County is overweight or obese; this is slightly higher than the national average (California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 2009)

News & Upcoming Events

The San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative is partnering with KyXy 96.5 in its 2013 Get Fit & Thrive Campaign to promote 5210 Every Day!.

See our latest newsletter and the COI calendar for upcoming events.


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