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The projects listed below are the main areas of
partnership with health care providers to achieve
more chronic disease prevention in Thurston County:
- LiveWell
– CDSM - complements the efforts of
medical professionals by expanding the
availability of chronic disease self-management to
employed adults.
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Diabetes Collaborative
– local planned care initiative
prepares physicians to serve chronically
ill patients better
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Motivational Interviewing
– improving physician skills in
communicating with patients to motivate
healthy behavior changes
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Healthy Child Weight
– increasing knowledge of best practices
in childhood obesity prevention and
developing new interventions.
A local adaptation of the Washington State
Collaborative, this project involves physicians by
setting up chronic disease electronic medical
tracking systems and holding quarterly learning
sessions related to prevention and treatment of
diabetic patients. Physicians of Southwest
Washington leads this project with funding from a
Thurston County grant, and is currently pursuing
additional support to sustain and continue to expand
the Collaborative for local physicians.
Led by Physicians of Southwest Washington, this
component of the ASIST2010 project helps physicians
learn more about communicating with their patients
in a way that supports personal motivation and
self-care to improve patient quality of life in the
face of chronic disease. Presentations are made
each year to reach new physicians with this
important technique.
Benefits of MI:
- Effective at encouraging behavior change
- Patient-centered
- Can be implemented as a brief intervention
This project aims to encourage local health care
providers who serve child patients family practice
physicians and pediatricians - to use best
practices in childhood obesity prevention. A workgroup
provides advice, and a series of discussions with
local providers during mid-2008 culminated with
the Healthy Child Weight Forum in September of
2008. The HCW Forum event featured a presentation
by childhood obesity researcher and pediatrician Dr. Lenna L. Liu of University of Washington and Seattle
Children’s Hospital.
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