Clinician’s Guide to Healthy Kids

Clinician’s Guide to Healthy Kids is a podcast series that aims to equip healthcare professionals with expert insights, empowering them to collaborate with children and their families to build healthy habits together. The podcast series explores a diverse range of topics including sleep, nutrition, physical activity, healthy growth and disordered eating in children. By offering practical advice tailored for health professionals, this podcast series strives to promote the overall health and wellbeing of children and their families.

Throughout the season we will engage in informative discussions with Queensland health experts to learn about strategies to approach prevention in clinical care.

Our first season is a special 8-part series that focuses on the practical side to integrating prevention or first-line treatment into daily healthcare moments. Throughout this series we will explore how to raise health concerns with families, how to complete brief health behaviour assessments and how to provide advice and support for families across Queensland.

Clinician’s Guide to Healthy Kids is an initiative of Health and Wellbeing Queensland.

How to listen

Listen to Clinician’s Guide to Healthy Kids at the links below, or find episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Alexa, or your favourite podcast app.

Disordered Eating in Higher Weights

Disordered eating is prevalent in our society, and when we discuss health, we want to approach conversations in ways that

Give me strength!

Working in primary care can be a tough job. Weaving conversations about nutrition, physical activity, and sleep into a 10

Sleep as a superpower

Sleep is a superpower. Inadequate or poor sleep has been linked to negative mental health and linked to depression and

Move more, sit less.

Moving is key for health but beyond sport, it can be difficult to suggest practical ideas for busy families to
Healthy growth with healthy diets with Dr Natassja Billich

Healthy growth with healthy diets 

Nutrition can often be difficult for experienced health professionals to “get right”. Use this podcast to learn how we can

Beat the bias – having healthy, impactful discussions around weight

The language around weight can be difficult to navigate. We want to encourage health to be the focus, but this

Let’s talk about weight

Measuring growth in children is an important part of a health check-up, as it enables early recognition of unhealthy weight

The right tools for the job

Growth charts, BMI charts, z-scores and WHO versus CDC. Knowing which growth chart to use can be confusing. This episode

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