Innovations for Reducing Obesity and Overweight

At Paths to Healthy Weight, the Health Care Innovations Exchange presents new approaches for helping communities and clinicians prevent overweight and obesity, in a joint effort of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Our What’s New on Healthy Weight section highlights our latest profiles, tools, podcasts, Web seminars, and perspectives. Our Trailblazers section offers additional healthy weight content, plus links for browsing more innovations and tools.

The Health Resources and Services Administration is funding a Prevention Center for Healthy Weight aimed at overweight and obesity in children and families. The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality is managing the center and organizing the Healthy Weight Collaborative, which will share community-based and clinical interventions for preventing and treating overweight and obesity. Our Keeping Pace section offers links to these organizations.

Please visit Paths to Healthy Weight in coming months to learn more.

• Group Sessions and Automated Phone Counseling Help Overweight Children in Low-Income Families Improve Health-Related Behaviors, Quality of Life, and Body Mass Index
• Hospital Enhances Access to Healthy Food Through Onsite Pantry and Cooking Classes, Leading to Better Diet and Health for Low-Income Families
• Employer-Sponsored Incentives and Support Designed to Reduce Overweight/Obesity and Other Risks Lead to Improvements in Health-Related Behaviors and Select Health Indicators
• Comprehensive, Culturally Sensitive Care and Self-Management Support Improves Health-Related Behaviors, Clinical Outcomes, and Emotional Health in Native Americans with Diabetes
• Statewide Collaborative Combines Social Marketing and Sector-Specific Support to Produce Positive Behavior Changes, Halt Increase in Childhood Obesity
• Statewide Initiative Combines Policy, Practice-Based Changes, and Social Marketing to Produce Positive Behavior Changes, Help Halt Increase in Childhood Obesity

• Policy Opportunities Tool
• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging
• Toolkit for Intervention of Overweight Children and Adolescents
• Let's Move! Toolkit for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Organizations
• Let's Go!
• Nemours Health & Prevention Services: Publications

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Research on Obesity and Overweight: AHRQ-Supported Research and Recent Findings
• Health Resources and Services Administration: Healthy Weight, Healthy People, Healthy Communities
• National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality: Prevention Center for Healthy Weight
• National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality: Prevention Center for Healthy Weight and Healthy Weight Collaborative  (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software. )