National Health Priority Resources

The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion created these resources to celebrate and promote physical activity and the benefits of sports participation.

The STOP Obesity Alliance partnered with the Obesity Action Coalition to analyze how states are covering the treatment of obesity in their Medicaid programs. The color-coded map displays results from each state’s publicly available plan documents for coverage of the four treatment categories.

This resource created by the National Alliance on Mental Illness provides advice and tips on how patients can practice self-advocacy in medical situations.

This seed grant from the NCCPA Health Foundation supports community-based approaches to mental health and encourages applicants to work towards greater systemic change by leveraging their skills and support in service of the community. Applicants may apply for up to $2,500 for a PA-led project that reduces stigma or raises awareness of mental health needs, promotes prevention, or fosters education and treatment.

The American Psychiatric Association’s annual conference.

In this Vital Minds episode, host James Millward, DMSc, PA-C interviews Amber Danielecki Buzzi, MSPAS, PA-C, and Phyllis Peterson, MPAS, PA-C. Vital Minds is a podcast of the PA Foundation.

MindApps, created by the Digital Psychiatry Lab at BIDMC, is an interactive database that helps anyone find mental health & brain apps that meet the unique preferences & needs for each unique individual.

In this Vital Minds episode, host James Millward, DMSc, PA-C interviews Roger S. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC. Vital Minds is a podcast of the PA Foundation.

Created by The Yale Rudd Center For Food Policy & Obesity, this resource provides examples of motivational interviewing-style questions to ask when assessing ambivalence and motivation for lifestyle changes in patients who are overweight or obese.

The Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) created this resource on motivational interviewing, a patient-centered counseling technique that incorporates listening, interpersonal skills, and support to bring a patient from ambivalence to behavioral change.

Published by the CDC, these resources can help you speak with your patients facing addiction about seeking treatment.

Scripps Health created a variety of handouts for diabetes patients available in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Lao, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Created by the CDC, this handout will help your patients track their food and beverage intake for one week.

NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

You can refer your at-risk patients to a CDC-recognized lifestyle change program that is proven by research to cut their risk of type 2 diabetes by more than half. Participating in this program will encourage weight loss and other healthy changes to your patients’ lifestyles, lowering their risk of type 2 diabetes, heart attack, and stroke.