Healthcare:
Prevention and Screening
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- Adult:
Clinical Guidelines for Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of
Overweight and Obese Adults from the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute.
- Adult:
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Screening
and Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Adults
- American
Medical Association (AMA) - Public Health: Position on Obesity
- BMI-for-Age Growth charts - From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Children
and Adolescents: Prevention
- Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Pediatric
Recommendations (New: December 2007) - (PDF,
64 KB) The Expert Committee Recommendations on the
Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent
Overweight and Obesity. The committee was convened by the
American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded in collaboration with
the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Related documents: Full
Report (PDF, 1.2 MB).
- Nutrition and
Physical Activity Assessment tools
- REAP tool:
Rapid Eating Assessment for Patients is a brief (about 10 minutes)
patient-administered tool to provide a nutrition assessment.
The REAP
tool (PDF, 295 KB) and REAP
Physician Key (PDF, 1.2 MB) are available.
- WAVE
tool (PDF, 94 KB): Weight, Activity, Variety, Excess) is a brief tool to
identify weight, nutrition, and physical activity issues in adult
patients.
- Nutrition
Recommendations: US Dietary Guideline for Americans 2005
- Physical
Activity Recommendations - General recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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