 Health Policy Communication |
This presentation is provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation as a resource guide for medical providers to use when addressing the media. The oridinal web tutorial can be found at www.kaiseredu.org.
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| Health and Zoning Talking Points |
Zoning can promote land uses that allow and encourage individuals to make healthy choices - or it can do just the opposite. Decisions made about the built environment have profound implications for human health. Zoning decisions can affect the rate of injuries and chronic disease, as well as the ability of seniors to age in palce.
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| Safe Streets Equal Good Health Talking Points |
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street.
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| Walking to School is a Healthy Habit Talking Points |
Promoting walking to children builds lifelong healthy habits, and normalizes walking as a part of the family's lifestyle. Creating environments that allow children to walk safely to school will improve health outcomes for children, potentially reducing asthma, obesity, and injury rates.
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| Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Key Messages |
Key messages focus on building partnerships between communities, school, local government and physicians; Equipping communities with access to affordable, nutritious food and sage spaces for physical activity; and preventing obesity by eating fruits and vegetables and being physically active.
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Physicians for Healthy Communities Toolkit |
| The Physicians for Healthy Communities Toolkit provides
physicians with the tools necessary to address the obesity
epidemic in their community. The toolkit covers topics
including strategies for working with schools, tips for
presenting to community groups, and obesity prevention
talking points and Power Point presentations.
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| Medi-Cal Nutrition Education Toolkit |
The Medi-Cal Nutrition Education Toolkit provides health plans with ideas and resources for addressing the obesity epidemic with their Medi-Cal health plan members. This toolkit contains a collection of simple patient education materials that have been used by Medi-Cal managed health plans throughout the state to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
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Overweight and Obesity Provider Toolkit |
| The California Medical Association (CMA) Foundation and the
California Association of Health Plans (CAHP) are collaborating
with commercial and MediCal managed care health plans and physician
and other health provider organizations to complete a provider
toolkit addressing the prevention and early identification of
overweight and obesity and weight management education. Individual
toolkits will be developed for adults and adolescent/pediatric patient
populations including a variety of informational resources and tools.
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Power Point Presentations |
| The following presentations can be downloaded
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School Presentation: Illustrates how
obesity has grown in the United States since 1985, describes
what factors most contribute to obesity in adolescents,
and details how students can impact the health of themselves,
their school and their community. |
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Community Presentation:
Describes the obesity epidemic, organized medicine’s
response, and what roles physicians may play in obesity
education and prevention.
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Colleague Recruitment Presentation,
by Dexter Louie, MD: Outlines physician’s
interest and responsibility in reversing the obesity epidemic.
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Portion Distortion: Illustrates
how foods have “super sized” over time, and
the amount of physical activity needed to work off the
extra calories consumed in the large portions of every
day foods.
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention: Provides prevalence rates of obesity
in the United States, 1984-2004. The graphic maps illustrate
the rise in obesity rates in each state over 20 years.
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