Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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7 Session 4: Collaborating for Action
7 Session 4: Collaborating for Action
Pages 57-64
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The health care system plays a central role. Greater coordination and multidisciplinary teamwork are needed, and this is a com plex task.
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Pérez-Escamilla then introduced the panel facilitator and panelists: Facilitator: Sarah Brown, co-founder and chief executive officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Panelists: Regina Davis Moss, associate executive director of public health policy and practice for the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Every year APHA spends time identifying legislative priorities in three overarching areas: achieving health equity, rebuilding the public health infrastructure, and the right to health and health care. APHA has not taken action specifically on gestational weight gain, but it does advocate for related issues, such as Health Resources and Services Administration programs on education for health care providers or efforts to increase health care services, including contraceptive coverage.
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Although ALSO emphasizes labor and delivery room emergencies, it also covers prenatal risk assessment. AAFP was able to get information about the risks of obesity and the new weight gain guidelines into a standardized lecture that is delivered to thousands of maternity care providers annually.
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From a medical care perspective, a healthy woman coming in for prenatal care does not have complications and thus needs less care; on the other hand, an unhealthy woman may develop complications and would therefore need more intensive monitoring, especially toward the end of pregnancy. In contrast, a public health model would put the emphasis on helping women come in to prenatal care in the healthiest possible state.
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Other participants suggested ways that the media could be a positive force in educating women about appropriate weight gain during pregnancy, such as the involvement of a credible celebrity who could be a role model or spokeswoman for healthy weight and pregnancy, a reality show about healthy behaviors leading to healthy weight gain, education from well-known media health authorities, shows on the Food Network, and efforts to increase awareness of HBO's documentary series The Weight of the Nation. Other suggestions for educating consumers included apps that provide nutrition information when a product's UPC
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One participant suggested that improved monitoring and surveillance data systems would be of great value in determining the effects of policies and programs aimed at helping pregnant women gain weight within the guidelines. Other ideas offered by participants included talking with mothers of young women at their own well-woman visits to encourage the support system that is critical to helping young women develop and maintain healthy behaviors, and ensuring that the science textbooks used in high schools appropriately cover issues related to the effects of nutrition during pregnancy on the health of the fetus and mother.
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