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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
KP/CDC collaboration
In 2002, a collaborative working group established four goals:
- identify practical, effective, nonsurgical approaches for the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity;
- increase the likelihood of adoption and implementation of these interventions and partnerships, thus leading to improved health outcomes for KP members and communities;
- identify clinical research opportunities supporting these goals; and
- create a forum linking colleagues in the academic and research communities, federal agencies, and practicing clinicians who are actively engaged in assessing and implementing programs for overweight and obese patients.
Two working meetings in 2002, jointly chaired by William Caplan, MD, KP-CMI Director of Clinical Development and William Dietz, MD, PhD, Director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, CDC, convened national experts in:
- prevention and treatment in adults,
- prevention and treatment in children,
- increasing physical activity,
- behavioral therapy,
- nutrition,
- culturally competent care,
- community-based interventions,
- national, state, and community weight management initiatives,
- the perspective of employer purchasers of health insurance, and
- community-based interventions.
The meetings identified practical, effective strategies that could be rapidly implemented to help prevent and treat obesity among Kaiser’s 8.1 million members.
KP collaborates with both CDC and HealthPartners on a CDC workgroup to translate and disseminate recommendations and promising practices for obesity prevention and control in medical care settings. The workgroup is translating the recommendations from the physical activity and pending obesity topic areas of the CDC Guide to Community Preventive Services¹ and examining evidence not included in the Community Guide to develop promising practices for addressing obesity in health plans and other health care delivery organizations.
¹ Accessed October 6, 2004 at http://www.thecommunityguide.org/nutrition/default.htm
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