This guide designed for health care professional champions already engaged in or starting their involvement in community efforts to bring about change. This Guide is designed to equip health care professional champions to effectively connect and partner with local and state organizations involved in community based education and change efforts to maximize their impact to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

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This guide provides the rationale and resources to support community organizations, governmental agencies and local collaboratives in their efforts to reach out and engage healthcare professionals to become part of their childhood obesity community team. For organizations with an interest in connecting or reconnecting with healthcare professionals as community health champions, there are strategies, approaches and tips that can strengthen the positive impact and minimize the challenges.

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SNAP provides a basic safety net to millions of people. The program provides monthly benefits to eligible low-income families which can be used to purchase food. Through the electronic benefit transfer systems (EBT) the use of food stamp “coupons” is no longer the means in which a client receives their benefits. EBT replaces paper coupons through use of a benefits card, similar to a bank card. For more information, please visit www.fns.usda.gov/snap.

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5-2-1-0 is a simple message for you and your family to eat healthy and be active. For more information about the 5-2-1-0 campaign, please visit www.beahealthyhero.org

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The RecreationRx initiative is working to provide the CMA Foundation's "Physician Champion" program with the RecreationRx Health Provider Implementation Guide. For more information about the RecreationRx Program, please visit www.recreationrx.org,

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This flyer lists medical, nutrition, physical activity and behavioral programs available to various age groups in Orange County. All resources have been reviewed approved, implemented and monitored by professionals including physicians, registered dieticians, nurse practitioners, psychologists and therapists.

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This brochure is designed to inform providers on how they can get their Medi-Cal patients involved in the Food Stamp Program as a means of promoting healthy eating and healthy living, and provides information on how to refer patients to a Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program in their area.

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This case study examines a partnership between the Network for a Healthy California and Health Net that led to the formation of the Los Angeles Collaborative. Topics explored include the Collaborative's activities and successes.

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The editorial from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's publication, Preventing Chronic Disease, discusses how overburdened physicians can incorporate the themes of obesity prevention and nutrition education into the daily practice of medicine. Editorial by Margaret Gadon, MD, MPH.

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This four module online CME aims to better equip physicians and other health care providers in providing effective care for their pediatric patients who are overweight and obese. The following learning objectives will be addressed:
Module #1: Background of the Overweight Problem
  • To explain the rapidly increasing rates of obesity among adults and
children in the United States
  • To calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)
  • To identify important risks associated with childhood overweight
Module #2: Overweight Prevention Strategies
  • To identify a child's risk for overweight by conducting a risk assessment
  • To explain optimal health care practices to prevent obesity in your patients and their families
Module #3: Medical Assessment for the Overweight and at Risk for Overweight Child
  • To determine who should be given a medical assessment for overweight based on BMI and other risk factors, and explain what the medical assessment should include
  • To connect findings from the medical assessment to potential medical conditions related to overweight and be able to identify specialists for referral, if necessary
Module #4: Management of the Overweight Child
  • To explain and use the ABCs of counseling to effectively counsel patients and families
  • To develop a treatment program that encourages small, gradual changes in weight goals and physical activity
  • To recognize common medical complications associated with overweight through screening procedures and refer to a specialist, when necessary

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The California Medical Association and WellPoint. The California Medical Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The California Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

An implementation guide from the Childhood Obesity Action Network.

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