Resources for Addressing Childhood Overweight and Obesity

Resources

For Primary Care Providers

Guidelines and Competencies

• The Role of the Pediatrician in Primary Prevention of Obesity (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2015)
• Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity
• Bright Futures (BMI, nutrition and physical activity supervision)
• Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity (Bipartisan Policy Center, June 2017)
• Pediatric Primary Care Nutrition Counseling (Nemours)
• Assessing Challenges in Low-Income Families to Inform a Life Skills-Based Obesity Intervention (Health Promotion Practice, Dec 7, 2017):
• CDC overview of BMI in children and teens
• CDC – safeguards for BMI measurements
• Academy for Eating Disorders 2010 position paper: Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs. Highlights from the paper:
• Focus on health, not weight
• Screen for unhealthy weight control behaviors
• Honor the role of mentally healthy parents in children’s health
• Are created and led by qualified health professionals
• Provide training for parents and staff – address weight-related stigma and harassment
• Construct a size-friendly environment

Training modules

• AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight Initiative and Clinical Training
  

• Body Mass Index Assessment: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (Four-module online training series)
• Using the CDC BMI for age growth charts training

Toolkits and resources

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans – Toolkit for Health Professionals
• Choose MyPlate – Resources for Health Professionals
• Choose MyPlate – Message Toolkit for Professionals
• Oregon WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and children)
• Oregon WIC – Resources for Medical Providers

For CCOs

• US Preventive Services Task Force – Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening
• Community Guide:
• What Works: Obesity Prevention and Control Factsheet
• Community Preventive Services Task Force Findings for Obesity
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM): The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight: Learning What Works and Making it Happen – A Workshop
• Videos of workshop
• Summary report of workshop
• Health Evidence Review Commission: Multisector Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity
• OHA/ PHD publication: Promoting Healthy Weight and Development in Early Childhood
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Childhood Obesity
• UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
• Child Obesity Research Demonstration Project – to improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors of low-income children such as those eligible or enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program who are struggling with childhood overweight or obesity; a multi-sector project linking community and clinical services
• NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity – final report and videos

For All Audiences: Preventing Weight Bias, Obesity Stigma and Eating Disorders

• AAP policy statement: Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents with Obesity
• Bias Toolkit for Health Care Providers
• Academy for Eating Disorders 2010 position paper – Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs. Highlights from the paper:
• Focus on health, not weight
• Screen for unhealthy weight control behaviors
• Honor the role of mentally healthy parents in children’s health
• Are created and led by qualified health professionals
• Provide training for parents and staff-address weight-related stigma and harassment
• Construct a size friendly environment
• American Public Health Association, The Nation’s Health, in best 10 articles of 2017: Stigma, bias against people with obesity can harm health