Childhood Obesity

Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Toolkit* - Office Culture Tools

NICHQ and Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA

The National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) and the teams from NICHQ’s Learning Collaborative "Healthy Care for Healthy Kids, a Collaborative to Prevent, Identify and Manage Childhood Overweight," sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, have developed a toolkit to assist clinicians in providing quality care for children who are at risk for overweight, or overweight. This toolkit provides basics tools for primary care practice teams to deliver coordinated, integrated, and multidisciplinary services to both prevent overweight and improve care for children who are already overweight or at risk for overweight.

Creating a Healthy Pediatric/Family Practice Office Environment
The physician’s office is a worksite that can be a powerful tool to communicate healthy eating and active living messages.

*Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Learning Collaborative (A Partnership of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and NICHQ)