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As healthcare providers, we all have an impact on the patients we treat...
...It is our duty to ensure those experiences are helpful and not harmful.
Healthcare Providers treating adolescent patients:
Physcians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses
Registered Dieticians
Physical or occupational therapists
Mental and behavioral health providers
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The Challenge of Obesity in the Black Community
Examing the Large Disparities
Our Role as Pediatric Providers
Research shows that Black women experience some of the highest obesity rates in the nation, as nearly 2/3 of the population meet BMI criteria for obesity, and Black female adolescents are on the pathway to these same inequities from an early age.
Obesity affects all communities differently.
Black and Latinx/Hispanic youth, and those from lower-income households, experience disproportionate rates of obesity driven by intersecting behavioral, cultural, psychosocial, and environmental factors.
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These disparities are not simply individual challenges; they reflect the enduring effects of structural racism, socioeconomic inequity, and limited access to healthy foods, safe activity spaces, insurance coverage, and effective treatment options.
Many Black families also carry a long history of medical mistrust rooted in biased care, harmful interactions, and exclusion from health-promoting systems. This is compounded by the impact of both conscious and unconscious racism within clinical encounters, along with societal beauty standards that seldom include or affirm Black girls.
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Here, you’ll find tools designed to elevate culturally attuned, family-centered, and equity-driven tools and resources for obesity treatment—because every child deserves compassionate, high-quality care, and every clinician deserves support in delivering it.
By engaging with this resource hub, you are joining a movement to close long-standing gaps in care, strengthen trust, and support adolescents who have too often been underserved
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Find resources linked below to help support your patients:
RESOURCES FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PLANNING
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