title: Practice Policy Statement: Integrating Effective Weight Management Into Practice.
abstract: The American College of Preventive Medicine Prevention Practice Committee contributes to policy guidelines and recommendations on preventive health topics for clinicians and public health decision makers. As an update to a previously published statement on weight management counseling of overweight adults, the College is providing a consensus-based recommendation designed to more effectively integrate weight management strategies into clinical practice and to incorporate referrals to effective evidence-based community and commercial weight management programs. The goal is to empower providers to include lifestyle interventions as part of the foundation of clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Derby, Connecticut. Electronic address: iedshteyn@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Edshteyn
authors.affiliation: Providence Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.
authors.forename: Kelechi A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Uduhiri
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Toyosi O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: American Association of Public Health Physicians, Green Cove Springs, Florida.
authors.forename: Katrina L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida; Florida Department of Health in Orange County, Orlando, Florida.
authors.forename: Kevin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sherin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis; D061217:Weight Reduction Programs