Health Priority Resources
Use this searchable database to quickly find tools and resources to help you improve patient health in AAPA’s Health Priorities.
Watch Your Weight
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion created this resource to help patients learn how to aim for a healthy weight.
Weight History
AAPA created this handout to help patients chart their weight history.
Weight Loss Medication Side Effects: Know Before You Start
This article by the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) discusses what patients need to know about the side effects of weight loss medications.
Weight Loss to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Behavioral Interventions
Final recommendation statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Weight Stigma Awareness Week
A week dedicated to empowering and educating people to end the traumatic and destructive anti-fatness rooted in racism, shame, and discrimination around body shape and size.
Your Feet and Diabetes
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created this information and tips sheet to help patients with diabetes keep their feet healthy.
Your Weight Matters
The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) created this ongoing resource for people struggling with obesity, challenging them to make an appointment with a qualified obesity healthcare provider and providing the free YWM toolkit to help guide the conversation and their journey to improved health.
Your Weight Matters Convention: July 24-26, 2025
OAC’s Your Weight Matters Convention is the nation’s leading conference dedicated to bringing together individuals concerned about their weight and health to learn science-based strategies from the country’s leading experts.
Zero Suicide
For healthcare systems dedicated to improving patient safety, Zero Suicide is a practical framework for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.