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QI Tips: Developing a Successful Measurement Strategy
In an improvement project, a measurement strategy gives your team the data to determine whether your changes are, in fact, leading to improvement. After 20 years of coaching teams in quality improvement, we’ve identified three questions that can help you leverage a successful measurement strategy. Question one: Do you have a “family of measures” that includes…
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Reduce Childhood Obesity with Healthy Weight Plans that Works
Since 1970, children’s obesity has more than tripled in the U.S. One in five school-aged children are now considered obese, which means that 20 percent of American children are at greater risk of chronic health conditions and social isolation, as well as developing heart disease, diabetes and multiple cancers later in life. Childhood obesity does…
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Empowering Families to Fight Obesity
In Medicaid-funded programs across the country, families are learning how to achieve a healthy weight through better nutrition and increased fitness. To maximize the benefits of these programs—and protect children from long-term health problems like increased risk for heart disease—NICHQ recently gathered insights from participating families on the best approaches to tackling obesity, which was…
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4 Key Considerations for Family and Community Engagement in Public Health
As public health professionals, we are tasked with designing, implementing and evaluating programs and policies that are intended to improve population health. A critical part of this work is partnering with the families in communities we want to reach. This is the best way to try to understand what matters most to them and how…
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New Obesity Projects Look to Improve Childhood Prevention and Treatment Programs
NICHQ is working with the Institute for Medicaid Innovation (IMI) to reduce childhood obesity and improve treatment plans among Medicaid recipients. Over the course of two projects, known as the Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment (CHOPT) projects, NICHQ will conduct a series of face-to-face interviews with families about how obesity programs affect their health and…
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San Diego Healthy Weight Collaborative: a systems approach to address childhood obesity
A collaborative approach to identify opportunities for interactions between multiple systems is an important model for childhood obesity prevention.
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The Healthy Weight Collaborative: Using Learning Collaboratives to Enhance Community-Based Prevention Initiatives Addressing Childhood Obesity
This report from the field describes the design, implementation, and early evaluation results of the Healthy Weight Collaborative.
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Next Steps in Obesity Prevention: Applying the Systems Approach
Roundtable discussion moderated by Terry Huang on a recent article by Nader et al. on a systems science approach to early childhood obesity intervention.
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Joining Forces for Healthier Communities
Progress report from the Collaborate for Healthy Weight project.
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The Healthy Weight Collaborative: Quality Improvement Methods Promoting Healthy Weight
Promoting healthy weight requires innovative approaches and a concerted response across all sectors of society.
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