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Understanding Childhood Obesity- Session 1

Understanding Childhood Obesity - Overview

Session: 1 – Understanding the Problem of Childhood Obesity

Origin of Material: USA

Number of slides: 48

(slides 10-56 of the entire Understanding Childhood Obesity – Overview PowerPoint)

Who should teach/use these PowerPoints?

We recommend paediatric dietitians/nutritionists, diabetes nurse educators, health & nutrition teachers at educational facilities. This resource is also useful and relevant to any individual wanting to better understand/refresh their understanding of obesity in children and adolescents.

Description:

This first session explains the fundamentals of childhood obesity, including:

• Definitions of ‘obesity’ & ‘overweight’
• Understanding and practically utilizing the BMI
• Important considerations when measuring a child’s height
• Explanation of current obesity rates in Australia
• Comprehensive exploration of the effects of childhood obesity
• Discussion & Review questions to check how well the audience/you absorbed this information.

Duration of PowerPoint:

These slides: 30 minutes (approximately)

Entire Understanding Childhood Obesity – Overview: 1.5 – 3 hours, depending on level of interaction with audience.

You should be thoroughly conversant with childhood obesity issues to teach this material.
The aim of this program is to offer you guidance for your presentation. You may choose to alter material in these slides to suit your needs.

Published: December 2009

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Author: Susan M. Brissette

Susan Brisette brings 30 years of experience in the American health care, ranging from positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer in the acute care hospital setting to Senior Executive for a major national health care management company. She has had principle responsibility for managing dozens of ambulatory facilities across the USA, selling over $40 million dollars in health care contracts and consulting to Fortune 500 companies for health care delivery and medical benefits. She has developed and implemented operating policies and procedures for both hospitals and clinics and has achieved JCAHO and AAACH accrediation for medical facilities. She now own and operates SB Cass Associates, a health care consulting firm located in upstate New York.

Ms. Brissette holds a BS in Biology from Northeastern University and an MS in Health Policy & Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has lectured on health care management at the University of Massachusetts, developed a health care delivery system for a mining company in Cajamarca, Peru, and recently led the Afghanistan Public Health Redevelopment Task Force for the Washington Harvard Alumni Group. She has consulted on health care projects in Poland, Romania, Israel, Kuwait, Peru, Canada and Mexico.

Ms. Brisette's consulting practice handles client projects ranging from business plan development for clinics, assisted living facilities, and clinical research groups to the development of market research reports for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She has written dozens of health care articles published on the internet and in American professional and consumer journals. She has also authored or edited online course on HIPAA compliance, corporate security, childhood obesity, and business ethics.

Through Ms Brisette's wide-ranging experience, she fully understands the health care marketplace, has set strategy for entrepreneurial organisations, has successfully implemented health care delivery strategies both in the USA and internationally, and provides expert financial and analytic skills for monitoring and guiding medical organisation development. 

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