Domain Strategies

The following is a partial list of strategies that aim to engage healthcare systems and providers to reduce and prevent childhood obesity. A complete list of strategies can be located in the Call to Action: Childhood Obesity Prevention Action Plan.

• Include culturally appropriate childhood obesity prevention in routine clinical practice through screening, counseling, and referrals, taking into account patients’ readiness to change.
• Promote breastfeeding as the healthiest first food and provide lactation support to pregnant women and mothers.
• Participate in community, county, state, and national surveillance efforts to measure BMI prevalence.
• Provide pregnant women and their families with healthy weight gain and other obesity prevention messaging as part of routine clinical practice.
• Model healthy eating and active living in all healthcare settings.