Resources for Primary Care Providers

To encourage healthy eating and physical activity and prevent overweight, Nemours Health & Prevention Services (NHPS) is working with primary care pediatric offices in Delaware to provide tools, educational materials, and guidelines for health care providers, parents, and children.

We are working to provide tools and resources for providers, patients, and their families, including clinical management guidelines and take-home information for parents and children.

Primary Care Provider Toolkit

NHPS has created a toolkit to help you identify and manage overweight in the children you see at your clinic. The toolkit includes the following childhood overweight references for primary care providers:

• BMI charts for boys and girls ages 2-20
• BMI wheel
• Guidelines for prevention, identification, and management of overweight in children 2-18 years
• Guidelines for prevention, identification, and management of overweight
  in children birth to 2 years
• Guidelines for the medical evaluation of overweight children ages 2-18
• Indications for subspecialty referral
• Weight goals
• Blood pressure level charts for boys and girls by age and height percentile
• Survey for all patients and families at well child visits (in both English and Spanish)

Download the toolkit (in PDF format). The toolkit does not include BMI wheel, this tool is available by contacting customer service at 888-494-5252 or nhps_info@nemours.org.