tailieunhanh - Providing Clinicians with the Skills and Tools to Assess, Prevent and Treat Pediatric Obesity

Each of us has some beliefs and assumptions about health and illness that are ours alone, and others that we share with members of our cultural group. When one person experiences stomach pains, he may take an antacid. Another might consult an urgent care nurse. Others may fix an herbal tea, visit a shaman, or take acupuncture treatment. Some will do nothing, even when the pain becomes intense, perhaps because their culture views the expression of pain as a sign of weakness. Our health behavior depends on the way we understand the cause of illness; what we think should be done about it; and whether. | The Health Obesity Prevention Education Project Providing Clinicians with the Skills and Tools to Assess Prevent and Treat Pediatric Obesity hopeproject@ THE REGISTRATION PROCESS To register your training program and faculty fill out the enclosed registration forms and return to The HOPE Project 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0811 La Jolla CA 92093 fax You may also request the form and return via email at hopeproject@. For more information contact the HOPE Project team at hopeproject@. The HOPE Curriculum at work for you CONNECTING YOU TO THE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES YOU NEED TO ASSESS PREVENT AND MANAGE PEDIATRIC OBESITY Format . DUAL SCREEN FORMAT PROJECTING A LECTURE VIDEO FILE ACCOMPANIED BY A SELF-ADVANCING POWER POINT SLIDE SET . REFERENCE BAR WITH SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS AND RESOURCES . CLINICAL TOOLKITS INCLUDING CLINICAL ALGORITHMS CLINICAL ASSESSMENT FORMS PATIENT HANDOUTS REGIONAL RESOURCE LISTS Overview 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. Curriculum topics were selected by experts of nutrition medicine dentistry behavioral counseling and education and incorporate the 2007 Expert Committee recommendations regarding the prevention assessment and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity. The HOPE curriculum reviews the health consequences of childhood obesity screening techniques to identify children and families at risk the current evidence for health intervention recommendations and teaches the theoretical rationale and art of constructive and culturally sensitive weight counseling for behavioral change. The HOPE curriculum is web-based and is available to both future and current clinicians across the United States. This educational tool grounded in an understanding .