HIN Health Action e-Bulletin
| December 12 , 2006 |
Get Ready for Your Patients' New Year's Resolutions with the Newly Updated Aim for a Healthy Weight Provider Kit Many patients will be making New Year’s Resolutions to live healthier lives in 2007. Do you have the tools to help them? The Aim for a Healthy Weight education kit is designed to offer health care providers the resources they need to identify, assess, and manage overweight and obese patients, and thereby reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease and other diseases. This second edition was updated based on feedback collected from various health professionals who used the first edition.
| Kit components include: - Facts About Healthy Weight – patient fact sheet *NEW*
- Patient booklet *NEW*
- Laminated card with the body mass index (BMI) chart, and the algorithm to assess, classify, and treat (ACT) overweight and obese patients *NEW*
- Clinical guidelines expert panel report
- Practical Guide
- 3-Step guide to start a conversation with your patients
- Waist circumference tape measure
Item #KT-021_06. Check out the Aim for a Healthy Weight Web site and its BMI calculator, menu planner, and portion distortion information as an additional patient education resource at http://healthyweight.nhlbi.nih.gov. | | 
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Archived page, reproduced from a 2008 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.
