Healthy Beverage Quick Reference Guide

This reference tool was designed to compile the various policy and clinical recommendations into an easy-to-use guide that spotlights the age-specific AAP healthy beverage recommendations for infants, toddlers, children and adolescents. To view or download the guide, click here.

Obesity CPG Clinical Decision Supports

Resources to support clinicians with HIT, building capacity, quality improvement, and other clinical decision support resources needed to integrate recommendations at the point of care.

Patient Retention

A series of evidence-informed resources that were developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in weight management to support efforts to improve patient retention in your pediatric tertiary care weight management program. Resources may also be helpful in primary care. Click to view the resources.

HALF Implementation Guide

The Healthy Active Living for Families: Right From the Start (HALF) Implementation Guide is an online resource for pediatricians to enhance obesity prevention for children birth to age 5 via primary care. The evidence based guide identifies risk patterns associated with obesity and highlights key topics to cover during varies developmental stages. Click to view the HALF guide.

Healthy Growth App

The Healthy Growth App allows a healthcare provider and parent to identify healthy active living topic areas that are important to the family during a patient encounter. The resulting personalized action strategies can be printed or emailed directly to the parent. Content is available in English and Spanish. Click to download the app.

Next Steps Spanish Flip Chart

The Next Steps resource is designed to help clinicians with weight management in the context of follow-up visits in the primary care office. The Next Steps guide and flip chart helps the clinician by outlining a series of planned follow-up visits designed to teach evidence-based weight management strategies that can lead to success for the practitioner and patient. The full English guide and flip chart are available at our AAP Bookstore/AAP Shop. Available for free: The Spanish version of the Next Steps Flip Chart (which includes clinician talking points in Spanish and a patient facing side that reinforces messages in Spanish text and photos). Click to view.

Algorithm for Screening, Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity

A clinical pathway intended for primary care clinicians to integrate the CPG recommendations at the point of care. This resource aids clinicians from screening and diagnosis to evaluation and treatment, while highlighting all of the primary decision points with the relevant evidence-based and consensus recommendations.

Last Updated

02/12/2025

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics