A Practical Guide to Healthy Weight Management
Webinar Recording
Originally presented by Cardea Seattle on November 30, 2011
About This Webinar
This 90-minute webinar will explore practical points for counseling clients on healthy weight management strategies. Particular attention will be paid to the barriers that both clinicians and clients face in their efforts to talk about weight management. Multiple tools will be shared with participants to facilitate discussions with clients in family planning and primary care settings. Recent research findings will be discussed, covering what is known about nutrition and physical activity strategies that work, as well as other contributing factors to weight such as stress and sleep.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for nurse practitioners and other clinical providers, RN's, nurse educators, and others who work as patient educators in a family planning clinic or other community health care setting.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar participants will be able to:
- Describe factors contributing to healthy weight management.
- Discuss tools to be used with clients in brief clinical interventions for weight management.
- List key strategies clinicians can use to assist their clients with healthy weight management, particularly in the context of reproductive health visits.
Faculty
Helen K. Bellanca, MD, MPH
Helen Bellanca is a family physician currently working for the Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health. She has worked for many years on public health advocacy issues related to obesity. She also directed a large 3-year federal grant to address obesity with Hispanic farmworker families in the Columbia River Gorge region, and as part of that project developed multiple clinical tools for addressing healthy weight management in clinical encounters, including Healthy Weight Management is for Everyone, a clinical guide to be used in primary care exam rooms.