Paths to Healthy Weight | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Paths to Healthy Weight | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Paths to Healthy Weight

Innovations for Reducing Obesity and Overweight
At Paths to Healthy Weight, the Health Care Innovations Exchange presents new approaches for helping communities and clinicians prevent overweight and obesity, in a joint effort of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Our What’s New on Healthy Weight section highlights our latest profiles, tools, podcasts, Web seminars, and perspectives. Our Trailblazers section offers additional healthy weight content, plus links for browsing more innovations and tools.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is funding a Prevention Center for Healthy Weight aimed at overweight and obesity in children and families. The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality is managing the center and organizing the Healthy Weight Collaborative, which will share community-based and clinical interventions for preventing and treating overweight and obesity. Our Keeping Pace section offers links to these organizations.
Please visit Paths to Healthy Weight in coming months to learn more.

Trailblazers Innovations Worth Scaling Up to Help People Scale Down

• Separate Teen and Parent Group Classes Combined With Pediatrician Support Reduce Body Mass Index and Improve Self-Image of Overweight Girls
• Culturally Tailored Lifestyle Counseling Tied To Readiness for Change Helps Underserved African-American Women Reduce Dietary Fat Intake
• Comprehensive Wellness Program Improves Employees' Health-Related Behaviors and Risk Factors, Stems Rise in Employer Health Care Costs
• Group Sessions and Automated Phone Counseling Help Overweight Children in Low-Income Families Improve Health-Related Behaviors, Quality of Life, and Body Mass Index
• Hospital Enhances Access to Healthy Food Through Onsite Pantry and Cooking Classes, Leading to Better Diet and Health for Low-Income Families
• Community-Based Effort to Promote Better Diet and Regular Exercise in Students Improves Fitness, Modestly Reduces Obesity

More Healthy Weight Innovations >> QualityTools You Can't Weight to Use

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) Connection Resource Library: Click n’ Go Education Materials
• Policy Opportunities Tool
• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging
• txt4health
• Road to Health Toolkit
• BodyWorks—A Toolkit for Healthy Teens and Strong Families

More Healthy Weight QualityTools >> Keeping Pace More Resources Related to Healthy Weight Innovations

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Research on Obesity and Overweight: AHRQ-Supported Research and Recent Findings
• Health Resources and Services Administration: Healthy Weight, Healthy People, Healthy Communities
• National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality: Collaborate for Healthy Weight
• National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality: Prevention Center for Healthy Weight and Healthy Weight Collaborative  (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software. )
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What's New on Healthy Weight

INNOVATION PROFILE Nurses Provide Free Health and Safety Screenings on Farms, Leading to Better Eating Habits and Cholesterol Levels, and to High Attendance at Followup Appointments

INNOVATION PROFILE Fun, Interactive Classes Emphasize Easy-to-Understand Messages, Leading to Enhanced Knowledge About Healthy Behaviors in Elementary School Children

INNOVATION PROFILE Statewide Campaign Provides Education and Technical Support to City Officials, Leading to Policies That Promote Healthy Behaviors

QUALITY TOOL AMA Weigh What Matters

QUALITY TOOL SuperTracker: My foods. My fitness. My health.

Perspectives, Events & Podcasts

PERSPECTIVE Charles Homer, MD, MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Explains How the Healthy Weight Collaborative Is Working to Reduce Obesity

PERSPECTIVE Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, FAAP, FACP, Former Chief Public Health Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration, Describes HRSA's Plan for Promoting Healthy Weight Innovations

PODCAST Teaming Up to Help Communities Share Healthy Weight Innovations View Transcript Flash Player Download 
Charles J. Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, and Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, FAAP, FACP, Former Chief Public Health Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration

WEB SEMINAR New Approaches to Pediatric Obesity: Helping Families Help Kids Joseph Skelton, MD, Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Lori Stark, PhD, ABPP, Cincinatti Children's Hospital Medical Center

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