Chronic Disease Awareness Month: Obesity

Earn CME credits while exploring cultural and social influences of obesity

July is recognized as Chronic Disease Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing understanding of chronic conditions such as obesity and diabetes. These diseases are often influenced by cultural and social factors that can complicate prevention, diagnosis and management.

You can earn 0.75 CME credits by completing the course on Obesity Care: Identifying Challenges and Inequities that Impact Health Outcomesopen_in_new from Optum Health Education.

Understanding the broader influences on obesity

Obesity affects more than 40% of the adult U.S. population and is shaped by a range of interconnected factors, including:*

• Social Drivers of Health (SDOH)
• Disparities in health care access
• Diagnostic inequities across race, ethnicity and gender
• Coexisting conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, which vary by age, sex, race/ethnicity and SDOH 

Additional resources 

• Cultural Competency
• Social Drivers of Health

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