TOWARD TOTAL COMMUNITY HEALTH

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TOWARD TOTAL COMMUNITY HEALTH
Kaiser Permanentes Comprehensive Approach to
Obesity Prevention

• Loel Solomon, Ph.D., National Director
• Community Health Initiatives and Evaluation
• San Diego Obesity Summit
• September 20, 2007

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Kaiser PermanentesClinical Priority Areas

• Clinical Area Prevalence/Incidence
• Overweight and Obesity 4,400,000
• Asthma 95,000
• Cancer 25,000 new cases/yr
• Chronic Pain 250,000
• Coronary Artery Disease 165,000
• Depression 415,000
• Diabetes 450,000
• Heart Failure 80,000

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KPs Comprehensive Approach to Obesity

• Evidence-based clinical prevention strategies
• Healthier communities through HEAL Initiative
• Model organizational practices

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The Challenge for the Health Sector

• Excellent medical care alone is insufficient
• Major drivers of the obesity epidemic are
  environmental
• Consensus Comprehensive environmental and social
  change is required to turn down the epidemic
• Our Members Cant be Healthy if They Live and
  Work in Unhealthy Communities

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We Must Address the Conditions of Health

• It is unreasonable to expect that people will
  change their behavior easily when so many forces
  in the social, cultural, and physical environment
  conspire against such change.
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  -- Institute of Medicine, 2003

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Healthier Communities What KPs HEAL Initiative
Looks Like in CA

• Intensive Place-Based Efforts Community Health
  Initiatives
• HEAL Partnership Grants
• HEAL-Related Policy
• KPs Educational Theatre Program

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Walking Our Talk Creating Healthier Workplaces

• KP farmers markets
• Local sourcing initiative
• Vending machine reforms
• Stairwell promotion
• 10,000 Steps program
• Design of new facilities

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For More Information

• http//xnet.kp.org/communitybenefit/chi
• Loel Solomon
• loel.solomon_at_kp.org
• 510-271-6401