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DMAA Obesity Toolkit for Employers
DMAA: the Care Continuum Alliance has created an online interactive toolkit specifically for employers.  The kit enables employers to model benefit design interventions that fight obesity, and to identify value added approaches.  Login is required, but the toolkit is free.

LEAN Works
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a targeted web site for employers to provide information and examples of worksite programs, benefit strategies, and design innovations that can increase physical activity and fight obesity through workplace innovation. 

Childhood Obesity: It's Everyone's Business
The National Business Group on Health Toolkit, Childhood Obesity: It's Everyone's Business, offers employer activities and programming for child obesity prevention and management. The action-oriented sections of the Toolkit are built around four key levers available to most or all employers - benefits, employee education, on-site facilities and philanthropic opportunities. Throughout the toolkit, employer case studies and examples illustrate how strategies in place may be modified, expanded or marketed to promote healthy weight for children. The goal is to provide employers with a range of options that can be implemented relatively easily in their own company. 

Evidence Based Benefits
The National Business Group on Health’s National Committee on Evidence-Based Benefit Design developed this toolkit as a resource for employers who want to strategically invest health care dollars to improve quality, prevent disease and injury and promote value, as well as to counter health system incentives to over-promote and overuse unnecessary, unproven and potentially harmful procedures and treatments.  The Toolkit includes a discussion of the evidence based benefit design related to bariatric surgery, and also addresses obesity in a segment on evidence based preventive services benefit design.  The information is password protected but can be obtained from NBGH.

eValue8 Request for Information
The National Business Coalition on Health has developed a national standardized request for information that helps employers understand plan practices and to drive evidence based best practices an innovations in health plans.  The RFI includes a specific assessment of health plan obesity prevention and treatment strategies. 

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