New Electronic Health Records Incentive Program Includes Obesity Measures
By Casey Langwith and Anna Muldoon, Members of The George Washington University’s Research Team for the STOP Obesity Alliance
Obesity GPS: A Guide for Policy and Program Solutions
The STOP Obesity Alliance Health & Wellness Chairperson, 17th U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard H. Carmona, facilitated a panel discussion for the launch of the Obesity GPS – featuring the Alliance’s Director, Christine Ferguson, the American Medical Group Association’s Julie Sanderson-Austin, and the American Heart Association’s Dr. John Ring.
The Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance brings together a diverse and powerful group of consumer, provider, government, labor, business, health insurers and quality-of-care organizations to stop, think and change how we perceive and approach the problem of obesity, overweight, and weight-related health risks, including heart disease and diabetes.
The goal of the STOP Obesity Alliance is to go beyond awareness and consumer education efforts to identify and address systemic and cultural barriers that are failing to adequately support individual successes.
The STOP Obesity Alliance is focused on:
Conducting and assembling research that identifies any cultural and systemic biases in combating obesity and its related health conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
Developing and supporting research-based initiatives to improve care and prevention.
Making recommendations and promoting needed systems changes.
NOW AVAILABLE: STOP Obesity Alliance Task Force on Women Statement of Agreement
The STOP Obesity Alliance Task Force on Women — a group of nearly 20 health advocacy organizations — has identified four areas that have a significant impact on weight and obesity in women. Click below to find out more.
Overcoming Childhood Obesity Means Addressing Mom’s Weight Issues As Well
The information gap and general lack of understanding of obesity’s unique and disproportionate impact on women contributes to the challenges of the 65 million American women who are considered overweight or obese, said the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance Task Force on Women at a meeting on Capitol Hill today.
Put Mothers in Charge: Khaliah Ali, ‘Fighting Weight’
The Washington Post Express
July 27, 2010
By Vicky Hallett
Moms, it’s time to put on your gloves and get into the fight against fat. That’s the message Khaliah Ali, 36, daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali, wanted to get out last week at an event in Washington held by the STOP Obesity Alliance Task Force on Women.