On demand webinar

General practice management of children with obesity and overweight

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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 21 Aug 2023

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Email: RACGP Specific Interests
Call: 03 8699 0487

Price

RACGP Members: Free for members
Non-Members: Free for non-members

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General practice management of children with obesity and overweight

On-demand recorded 21 Aug 2023

One in four Australian child/adolescent between 5 and 19 years old are living with overweight or obesity.
Come along to this practical and GP-focussed webinar to upgrade your skills on assessing and managing children aged two years 12 living with obesity.

It will cover practical approaches for:

Communication including how to raise and discuss a child’s weight
Interpreting BMI for age charts
Weight stigma
How GPs can make a difference
Family involvement
Healthy habits.

Learning outcomes

Implement communication strategies to raise and discuss a child’s weight
Describe key messages that can be used with families to support healthy eating, activity and sleep

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This event is part of RACGP Specific Interests Obesity Management – Child and adolescent webinar series. Events in this series are:

Host

Dr Terri-Lynne South
Chair of RACGP Specific Interests Obesity Management

With over 25 years of experience as a healthcare practitioner, both as a GP and accredited practising dietitian, Terri-Lynne has always had a special interest in health conditions associated with excess weight. She believes obesity is a chronic complex medical condition and should be treated as such. Terri-Lynne understands excess body weight has many causes, contributors, influences, impacts, risk factors, complications, and management options. From 2021, Terri-Lynne moved to a full-time focus on obesity and metabolic health, which grants her the time and commitment to further her life-long passion.

Presenter

Prof Louise Baur

Professor Louise Baur is a paediatrician and an internationally recognised childhood obesity researcher. She has a special interest in the prevention and management of child and adolescent obesity and has also studied various aspects of adult obesity. Professor Baur has been instrumental in raising the profile of childhood obesity as an issue of clinical and public health importance, in Australia and internationally. Her body of research has helped define management efforts around childhood obesity and improved our understanding of the factors that help prevent obesity in the first few years of life. Her work also has helped define predictors of obesity and the metabolic syndrome in young people, and the complications of obesity.

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