Healthy Weight in Women of Reproductive Age Action Learning Collaborative

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Healthy Weight in Women of Reproductive
AgeAction Learning Collaborative

• An activity of the
• Womens Health Partnership
• funded by CDC

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Purpose of the Womens Health Partnership
Identify and promote unique state and local MCH
roles and opportunities to ensure and improve
womens health before and between pregnancies.
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Initial Goal of WHP

• Develop state and local partnerships
• to promote healthy weight among women of
  reproductive age to improve maternal health and
  birth outcomes.

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Rationale

• Obesity in pregnancy linked to maternal and
  infant morbidity and mortality
• Research and best practice information and
  guidelines are available
• Obesity impacts a large number of women and thus
  our efforts could affect a large number of
  pregnancies
• Recognized public health and member priority

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Adverse Outcomes Associated with Maternal Obesity

• Infertility
• Pregnancy, labor delivery complications
• Fetal, neonatal death
• Birth weight/prematurity
• Birth defects
• Gestational diabetes
• Decreased breastfeeding
• Childhood obesity

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Highlighted Activities

• Document Womens preventive health framework for
  maintaining a healthy weight
• Assessment of member needs capacity to address
  healthy weight related areas
• Healthy Weight Action Learning Collaborative (HW
  ALC)

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RFA for ALC, Summer 2006

• Team composition
• State Title V/MCH director
• MCH leadership from local health department
• Data/analytic specialist
• Professional from an existing community-based
  health initiative
• Nutrition and/or physical activity and/or chronic
  disease professional

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ALC Teams Selected

• Los Angeles County, CA
• Sonoma County, CA
• Maricopa County, AZ
• Salt Lake Valley, UT
• Douglas County, NE
• Minneapolis, MN
• Boston, MA
• Duval, Leon Orange Counties, FL

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Levels of Collaboration for Systems Change

• Level 1 Team-based activities for institutional
  and community change
• Level 2 Cross-team communication and
  collaboration, peer exchange and technical
  assistance
• Level 3 All-teams Practice Collaborative
  activities to advance urban MCH practice

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HW ALC Activities

• Kick off October 2006
• 1st on site meeting, December 2006 in Atlanta, GA
• 2nd on site meeting, June 2007, in Salt Lake
  City, UT
• All ALC technical assistance calls
• Lifecourse Framework, RE-AIM, Focus Groups, peer
  exchange

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HW ALC Next Steps

• Implementation of team plans
• Evaluation
• Dissemination Recommendations