Resources for health care providers

This page is no longer updated as of the 30th June 2016. 

This is a list of resources to guide your practice on how to prevent and manage obese patients in primary health care.

COMPaRE-PHC topic summaries:

• Dietary interventions management overweight and obesity adults
• How can gps help obese patients lose weight?
• Local population health measures prevent obesity role medicare locals
• Motivational interviewing parents young children
• Preventing obesity young children
• The role nurses general practice preventing child obesity

Guidelines:

• NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity for Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia.
• Australian Dietary Guidelines- Eat for health
• Australia's Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines (2014)

Patient information:

• Better Health Channel- Disability - managing overweight and obesity
• Health Direct Australia- Obesity 
• The Department of Health- About overweight and obesity

Publications:

• Citrome,I. Food for thought: do you ask about eating? INT J CLIN PRACT (2016) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijcp.12845/abstract 
• Rollnick, Stephen, et al. "Motivational interviewing." BMJ 340 (2010) http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1900

Other resources:

Dietetics Association of Australia (DAA)

• Australia's Healthy Weight Week for People with Disability- a weight loss program that has adapted the Australia's Healthy Weight Week 10 week challenges to be more accessible and tailored to the disability community.
• DAA Best Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults- this document reviewed the best practice guidelines for dietetic management of overweight and obesity in Australia.
• Dietitians 10 Point Plan for the Treatment of Overweight and Obesity- the 10 Point Plan is a guide for the treatment of overweight and obesity aimed at providing the dietitian with a short checklist of the key steps in implementing the DAA Best Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. It is intended that the checklist be used to prompt action and facilitate documentation of your clients' assessment and ongoing management. 
• GP Ten Top Tips: Raising the Topic of Weight from the RCGP
• Growing Healthy Program as part of Stream 1 of COMPaRE-PHC