Obesity: Towards a Precision Approach

Obesity:

Towards a Precision Approach

In this module you will learn to connect psychological risks, eating disorders and family influence to behaviour patterns in obesity.

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20 Academic Credits

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January, April, September

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This module will:

Review interventions and strategies that can be employed within a multi-disciplinary approach to obesity treatment in order to help healthcare professionals develop a more targeted approach to supporting individual patients with effective weight management.

Aims

The module aims to:

Explore the reasons for weight regain, the barriers to sustainable weight loss, and ways to overcome them
Discuss ways to personalise obesity care to achieve the best health outcomes for each individual patient
Provide an overview of the latest developments in obesity research and their implications for precision treatment of obesity

Module Content

Obesity is a complex condition caused by a wide range of factors, and there is a great variety of responses to common weight loss programmes, with weight regain often occurring within a few years. To achieve better results from obesity treatment, we need to try to predict how individual patients will respond to different treatment options, so that we can select the most appropriate treatment modality. This can be described as a ‘precision approach to obesity’.

Although precision obesity medicine, involving genetic analysis, is still some way off for obesity treatment, practitioners do have the means to make interventions more personalised and improve the patient’s chances of success. This module focuses on helping healthcare professionals develop a more targeted approach to devising interventions for individual patients, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach or leaving it to factors such as availability, cost, and patient or physician preferences, which often determine weight loss treatments at present.

Module Fee

This module requires a payment of the standard CCH Postgraduate Module fee £1185.

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