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4029.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| Kaiser Permanente (KP) is pursuing a comprehensive approach to obesity prevention - "Healthy Eating, Active Living" (HEAL) - that focuses on all members of the communities it serves, including KP non-members as well as KP members and staff. The central element is the Community Health Initiative (CHI), a place-based approach currently being implemented in nine geographic communities in five KP regions nationwide. CHI emphasizes multi-sectoral collaboration leading to long-term policy and environmental changes. Other activities targeting the broader community include initiatives promoting farmer's markets and limiting TV exposure. In addition to the community-level efforts, KP is pursuing internal organizational practice changes; for example, purchasing local, healthier food for the KP cafeterias and vending machines, and serving healthier meals at meetings. Finally, a number of innovative programs have been developed to reduce overweight among KP members, including tracking BMI as a vital sign, physician training programs on counseling strategies, and point-of-care prompts in exam rooms Taken together, the KP initiatives represent an innovative approach to obesity prevention, incorporating the latest thinking on using policy and environmental change to promote community-level health improvement, and evidence-based organizational practice change that can provide a model for other community organizations. This session will provide a conceptual overview for KP HEAL initiatives, provide details on CHI and the KP organizational changes, and describe the evaluation approach. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Pat Crawford, DrPH, RD | |||
| 8:30 AM |  | Kaiser Permanente's Comprehensive Approach to the Obesity Epidemic: Optimizing the Clinical Approach Trina Histon, PhD | ||
| 8:45 AM | | Produce to the People: Good Food, Good Medicine Preston Maring, MD | ||
| 9:00 AM | | Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Eating Active Living – Community Health Initiative (HEAL-CHI): A managed care organization's place-based approach to creating healthy communities through environmental and policy change in schools, neighborhoods, worksites and health care settings Jean Nudelman, MPH | ||
| 9:15 AM | | Building the evidence base for policy and environmental approaches to obesity prevention: A cross-site evaluation of a comprehensive community health initiative Pamela Schwartz, MPH | ||
| 9:30 AM | | Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Eating, Active Living obesity prevention initiative Elisa Wong, MPH | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | |||
| Endorsed by: | Statistics | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
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