Physicians & Other Health Care Professionals
The AMA Healthier Life Steps™ program provides background information and tools to help physicians support their patients' efforts to change four key health behaviors: diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and tobacco use. The Physicians' Guide describes the important role physicians play in fostering lifestyle change, and explains how physicians can implement strategies to assess patients' readiness to change and how to counsel patients on making these changes. The tool-kit provides a self-assessment questionnaire, action plans, progress tracking calendars, and a poster to help physicians help patients implement needed behavior changes.
The AMA Healthier Life Steps™ materials can be reproduced or duplicated and distributed without charge for noncommercial purposes. All copies must include the American Medical Association's copyright notice and contain no change in the content or format of the publication. Any other uses require AMA's prior written consent.
For questions or comments, please contact Healthier.LifeSteps@ama-assn.org.
View the Tool-kit:
Assess your patients' readiness to change one or more key health behaviors with this short questionnaire (Spanish version).
Help your patients identify and change specific behaviors with these four action plans.
Support your patients' efforts to initiate and maintain healthier behaviors with these tracking calendars.
Remind yourself, your office staff, and your patients of your partnership to improve your patients’ health.
The AMA's Weigh What Matters program is designed to support and enhance the dialogue between physicians and their patients about weight and how it impacts their health and their family’s health. Physicians can access resources and materials to help patients set and achieve healthy eating and physical activity goals.
Earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
The AMA has developed a set of continuing medical education activities to help physicians help their adult patients promote healthy eating and physical activity for themselves and their children. Included are two video modules, a more detailed monograph, and patient handouts.
