Physical Activity and Nutrition Tool Kits

March 9, 2008 10:53 am admin Announcements/Information

The Health Care work group is pleased to announce that the Child and Adolescent Physical Activity and Nutrition Tool Kit for Health Care Providers is now available (see ordering info below). Please help us to pass this information to health care providers working with youth.

Health care providers play an important role in helping children and adolescents maintain or achieve a healthy weight and in preventing future obesity. The Health Care Work Group from MoCAN have developed a tool kit to help providers screen, assess and treat youth with weight issues. The tool kit contains the following valuable resources:

§ Family Lifestyle Self-Assessment

§ Pocket Guide: “Screening and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight”

§ Healthy Family Tip Sheets and Goal Logs that can be used as patient handouts

§ BMI Wheel to quickly determine child or adolescent BMI

§ BMI-for-Age Percentiles Growth Charts

§ Blood Pressure Tables for youth

§ Blood Cholesterol Classification Chart

§ State of Missouri Consensus Screening Guidelines for Diabetes

The tool kit resources summarize recommendations from the scientific literature and expert work groups relating to child and adolescent obesity, including the recently released Expert Committee Recommendations on Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity.

Order your Child and Adolescent Activity & Nutrition Tool Kit

For more information, call (573) 522-2820 or email Patricia Kramer at pat.kramer@dhss.mo.gov