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Obesity

These tools have helped organizations to improve certain aspects of care. They are shared on this website to help accelerate your organization's improvement.

 

In addition, many organizations have developed tools in the course of their improvement efforts — for example, successful protocols, order sets and forms, instructions and guidelines for implementing key changes — and are making them available on NICHQ.org for others to use or adapt in their own organizations. We invite you to submit tools you have found useful!


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The Table of Contents for the Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Toolkit.


This section of the toolkit includes prevention tools and materials from the Jump Up & Go! website.


This section of the toolkit contains BMI Charts for boys and girls, An Approach for Prevention and Management of Overweight in Children, and Blood Pressure Charts for the 90th and 95th percentile.


This section of the toolkit contains the Encounter Documentation Tool, The NICHQ Obesity Registry, Coding and Billing Tools, and Patient Education Tools.


This section of the toolkit includes Management Plans for the care of children who are overweight or at risk for overweight.


This section of the toolkit includes Parenting Tips and Patient Education Tools for use in the care of children who are oveweight or at risk for overweight.


This section of the toolkit includes information on Physician Involvement in Community Action and Key Points on Community Resources.


This section of the toolkit contains information on creating a healthy pediatric or family practice office environment.


Camino Magico, or the "Magic Road" is the first comprehensive supermarket-shopping guide targeting the Latino community. Camino Mágico, developed by Oldways and the Latino Nutrition Coalition (LNC), is designed to help Latinos eat healthier based upon traditional Latino eating patterns. Camino Magico was launched May 1, 2007.


This section of the toolkit contains information of providing culturally appropriate care in your practice setting. Tools available in this section:Expanding Perspectives: Improving Cultural Competency in Children's Health Care


The registry helps practices/clinics identify and manage patients who are at risk for overweight or overweight. It can also help idenify preventive measures the practice/clinic can take in the 0- 2 year old population.