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211 San Diego Physical Activity & Nutrition
Database
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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.
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Addressing Childhood Obesity: Practical Office-based
Resources and Strategies, HEDIS Measures, Latino Cultural
Competency and Real Life Case Studies
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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.
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Breastfeeding
Taskforce of Greater Los Angeles
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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.
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Childhood
Obesity Prevention Advocacy Tools for Physicians
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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.
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CMA
Foundation & CAHP- Child & Adolescent Obesity Provider
Toolkit
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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.
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CMA
Foundation- Physicians for Healthy Communities
Toolkit
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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.
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Community Health Brief: Proceedings from the 4th Annual Anderson
Memorial Conference
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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.
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Dairy Council of CA resources for Health
Professionals
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Dairy Council of California offers free resources to California
health professionals. All materials are available in English and
Spanish.
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Health
Care without Harm: Healthy Food in Healthcare
Pledge
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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.
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Health & Obesity: Prevention & Education (HOPE
Project)
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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.
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Key Steps
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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.
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Toolkit for Healthy Living
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A collection of resources for use by physicians that are
counseling families with a child at risk or suffering from
overweight or obesity.
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SDIR-BMI
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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.
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Workplace Lactation (HealthyWorks)
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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.
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| 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.
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HHI Healthier Food Challenge
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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. |