Clinician's guide to healthy kids
Clinician's guide to healthy kids is an initiative of Health and Wellbeing Queensland. This podcast series aims to equip healthcare professionals with expert insights, empowering them to collaborate with children and their families to build healthy habits together. The podcast series explores a diverse range of topics including sleep, nutrition, physical activity, healthy growth and disordered eating in children. By offering practical advice tailored for health professionals, this podcast series strives to promote the overall health and wellbeing of children and their families.
Throughout the season we will engage in informative discussions with Queensland health experts to learn about strategies to approach prevention in clinical care.
Clinician's guide to healthy kids
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Clinicians Guide to Healthy Kids is an initiative of Health and Wellbeing Queensland. This podcast series aims to equip healthcare professionals with expert insights, empowering them to collaborate with children and their families to build healthy habits together. The podcast series explores a diverse range of topics including sleep, nutrition, physical activity, healthy growth and disordered eating in children. By offering practical advice tailored for health professionals, this podcast series strives to promote the overall health and wellbeing of children and their families.
Throughout the season we will engage in informative discussions with Queensland health experts to learn about strategies to approach prevention in clinical care.
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One in four children and adolescents in Queensland are currently living with a higher body weight. This is associated with poorer physical and mental well-being and higher long-term healthcare costs.
Children are more likely to have a higher weight if they come from areas of deprivation, rural or remote areas, or our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse or Aboriginal and Torres Straight families. Regardless of where you live or work, supporting a child and family to make simple health-related behaviour changes may alter their life trajectory with regards to weight gain and unhealthy weight.
The earlier these changes are discussed and integrated into a family's life, the more likely that a child is to avoid developing chronic health conditions later in life.
I'm Dr Sam Manger, a General Practitioner, and in this brand-new podcast series, Clinicians Guide to Healthy Kids brought to you by Health and Wellbeing Queensland's Clinicians Hub; I will help you navigate these topics.
Health and well-being Queensland is the State's dedicated Prevention Agency focused on obesity prevention through nutrition, physical activity and well-being. Their role is to make healthy happen. They've created an online toolkit -called Clinicians Hub - to support healthcare professionals to introduce prevention into their clinics.
Healthcare professionals may feel confident to measure and weigh a child, adolescent or adult forever often do not feel confident to approach a conversation around healthy growth. Research tells us that healthcare professionals are not confident to discuss weight as they can be unsure what to do next or worried that they may damage the relationship with the patient or cause unintended harm.
The Clinician's Guide to Healthy Kids Podcast will change this! Over the course of this series, we will show you how to introduce routine growth assessments into consultations, how to have sensitive and engaging conversations with your patient and their family, about their weight, and how you can identify opportunities for healthy behaviour change in an effective way.
Join us as we talk to some of Queensland's leading experts on these topics. Welcome Clinician’s Guide to Healthy Kids!
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