The Live Light ….Live Right program is a
Brookdale hospital
and community based partnership developed to deliver a program to
children with special health care needs. The target population is
overweight and obese children and adolescents, ages 2 to 18, who
have one or more metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity
such as (hypertension, hyperinsulinemia or diabetes and dyslipidemia.)
These conditions are risk factors for chronic diseases, including
coronary artery disease and type II diabetes. The program coordinates
and integrates the multi-disciplinary services required to achieve
optimal clinical management, promote healthy eating behaviors and
lifelong exercise, and to affect long-term behavior modifications
that impact health outcomes in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
This program is supported by funding from the New
York state Department of Health and also the Robin Hood Foundation.
Further funding for prevention and treatment of childhood obesity
is being solicited by the Live Light Live Right Program. add
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The goals of the program are to:
1. Increase access to coordinated, comprehensive, culturally sensitive,
medical and psychosocial care.
2. Increase the skills and knowledge of community pediatricians
in the identification and appropriate management of childhood obesity
3. Increase community awareness and understanding of obesity as
a serious health issue.
4. Increase community-based care coordination and support.
The goals of the program are accomplished
by:
1. Identifying and referring overweight/obese children
who have one or more obesity-associated metabolic disorders (hypertension,
hyperinsulinemia and type II diabetes, and dyslipidemia.) to the
Pediatric Obesity clinic)
2. Providing care coordination to obese children through
integration of health care with the school, community, and home-based
services.
3. Providing education and support to community pediatricians
in the identification and medical management of overweight and obesity
in children and adolescents.
4. Providing community education on obesity and obesity-related
disorders.
5. Providing nutrition education and counseling to
children and parents.
6. Providing physical activity training and structured
opportunities for exercise and physical activity in safe spaces
throughout the community.
7. Providing parent/peer support groups.
This approach is consistent with the mission
statement of our institution, which in part states that Brookdale
Hospital is "committed to be the focus of a healthy community".
This project is partially funded by the New
York State Department of Health through a grant 'Enhanced services
for children & Youth'.
