Weight bias prevention toolkit for healthcare professionals

[rainyday]

This site was mentioned in a local news segment here tonight. The story quoted a survey where a high percentage of health professionals (I think it was 50%) self-reported that they believe fat patients are unattractive or non-compliant.

This toolkit is designed to help clinicians across a variety of practice settings with easy-to-implement solutions and resources to improve delivery of care for overweight and obese patients. The resources are designed for busy professionals and customized for various practice settings. They range from simple strategies to improve provider-patient communication and ways to make positive changes in the office environment , to profound ones, including self-examination of personal biases.

The toolkit
http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/what/bias/toolkit/index.html

RuddCenter weight bias page:
http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/what/bias/index.html

The local doctor interviewed for the story is from the "weight management" department at a Kaiser hospital and the Rudd Institute lists "preventing obesity" as one of its objectives. Despite the anti-fat tilt (and the duh factor), it's good to see health professionals being exposed to this info, especially the part about bias preventing patients from seeking care.

 

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