Healthy Food in Healthcare: The Role for Healthcare in Food and Agriculture Policy

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• Speakers
• Overview
• CME Credit Requirements
• Educational Objectives
• Accreditation Statement
• Designation Statement
• Instructions for CME credit
• Key Resources
• Planning Committee
• Disclosure
• System Requirements
• Contact Us

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• Robert Lawrence, M.D. (ppt)
• Eecole Copen M.S., R.D., L.D. (ppt)
• Jamie Harvie, P.E. (ppt)

Speakers

Overview

Over the last century, we have radically altered the way we produce and distribute food. The transformation of our food and agricultural system is fundamentally affecting the health of our planet and its inhabitants. We are already experiencing significant impacts in the form of increased antibiotic resistant bacteria, poisoned air and water, and food-borne pathogens. Moreover, the increasingly energy intensive industrialized agricultural model is a significant contributor to climate change, accelerating a feedback loop with resultant negative impacts on food production, human health, and ecosystem resilience.

An understanding of these complex relationships gives us an opportunity to restore control over a situation that has pervasively influenced the health of humans and our environment. Agricultural policy and climate change policy play such an influential role in food system design, key voices across the health care sector can articulate the urgency for engagement in policy development and legislative advocacy, areas that have heretofore not been considered.

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify the role processed foods play in adding energy-dense, nutrient-deficient foods to the diet in the form of sugars and fats, in addition to excess sodium
• Recognize the major sources of excess calories in the American diet, particularly sweetened beverages (soft drinks, energy drinks, and juice drinks) and other foods containing added sweeteners
• Recognize that unhealthy food environments limit patients' ability to follow through on dietary recommendations
• Identify at least one example of medical and healthcare institutions or individual health care professionals that have advanced healthy food policies and/or practices in their institutions and/or local and state communities
• Develop at least one strategy to encourage their institution to improve the quality of food it serves and/or sells on site
• Identify at least one activity to promote nutritious and sustainable food in their communities

Accreditation Statement

The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement

The American Medical Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Instructions for CME credit

This live, online webinar is presented as a video webcast with attendant slide presentation. To receive credit, please view this CME activity in its entirety and evaluate the content presented. Complete both the activity participation record and activity evaluation and submit the forms via mail, fax, or email within 10 days to:

The estimated time to complete this activity is 1.0 hour.

CME Credit Requirements

• AMA CME Activity Evaluation Form (pdf, 42 kb)
• AMA Credit Claim Form (CME Activity Participation Record) (pdf, 128 kb)

Key Resources

• In Focus: A Health Sector Guide to Food System and Agricultural Policy (pdf, 145 kb).
  Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, November 1, 2009. Issue brief based on commissioned background paper by Harvie J, Mikkelsen L, and Shak L.
  Health care leaders are becoming more involved in reform of the nation's food systems and agricultural policies. Poor nutrition, linking directly to America's food and agricultural policies, is a risk factor for four of the six leading causes of death in the United States: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.
• In Focus: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agriculture Policy: Making a Case for Health Sector Engagement (pdf, 141 kb).
  Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, October 1, 2009. Issue brief based on commissioned based on background paper by Harvie J, Mikkelsen L, and Shak L.
  The food system is a key pathway to individual, public and global health-above and beyond basic nutrition. Where current food and agriculture policies undermine health, the health sector has both a responsibility and multiple opportunities to support policy reforms.
• A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy (pdf, 208 kb).
  Jamie Harvie; Leslie Mikkelsen; Linda Shak July 2009
  Health care leaders are broadening their awareness to include the need to address the food system as a means to individual, public, and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors. Key voices from the health care sector have begun to engage in market transformation and are aggregating to articulate the urgency for engagement in food and agricultural policy.

Planning Committee

• Barry Dickinson, Ph.D., Director, AMA Department of Science and Biotechnology and Secretary, Council on Science and Public Health
• Suzen Moeller, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, AMA Department of Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles
• Jamie Harvie, P.E., Health Care Without Harm Food Coordinator, Institute for a Sustainable Future
• Brian Raymond, M.P.H., Senior Policy Consultant, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
• Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., Science Director, Science Environmental Health Network

Disclosure

The content of this activity does not relate to any product of a commercial interest as defined by the ACCME; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

System Requirements

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• Internet connection speed of 128 kbps or higher is recommended
• ActiveScripting/JavaScript and Cookies enabled

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