Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine
The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Author: John Anthony Stevens
- Language: English
The global rise in lifestyle-related illness is one of the most complex problems facing humanity. Feeling disempowered? Lifestyle Medicine is a powerful… Read more
Description
Description
The global rise in lifestyle-related illness is one of the most complex problems facing humanity. Feeling disempowered? Lifestyle Medicine is a powerful solution.
Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease is an essential, evidenced-based resource for use by anyone with a stake in healthcare. This book is for clinicians, public health advocates, ecologists, policy makers, academics, teachers and for those researching illness prevention, chronic disease management and reversal. This book will deliver the knowledge, skills, tools and procedures to implement Lifestyle Medicine in practice. Lifestyle Medicine’s 6 pillar framework of nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, substance misuse management and connection is the best lens we have to see the way forward in preventing and managing the rampaging growth in lifestyle-related illness.
Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease is an essential, evidenced-based resource for use by anyone with a stake in healthcare. This book is for clinicians, public health advocates, ecologists, policy makers, academics, teachers and for those researching illness prevention, chronic disease management and reversal. This book will deliver the knowledge, skills, tools and procedures to implement Lifestyle Medicine in practice. Lifestyle Medicine’s 6 pillar framework of nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, substance misuse management and connection is the best lens we have to see the way forward in preventing and managing the rampaging growth in lifestyle-related illness.
Key features
Key features
- Brings together science, clinical practice, public health, social determinants, First Nations peoples’ knowledge and planetary health into a single, coherent narrative
- Explains the imperative for the world-wide movement of Lifestyle Medicine in an accessible manner for clinicians, researchers, ecologists, planners, policymakers, and the informed public
- Provides a useful guide to implement the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine in practice to prevent, manage and even reverse disease.
- Is about empowerment of patients, communities, clinicians and health systems for a healthier, happier and more sustainable human and natural environment.
Readership
Readership
Researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Defining and describing lifestyle medicine: Why we need to know it
2. Population health and health inequality
3. Navigating health risks in the Anthropocene
4. Metainflammation: Lifestyle medicine’s germ theory
5. Making us sick to make them rich: The commercial determinants of health and illness
6. Pillar 1: Nutrition for a healthy life. The associations between nutrition, health and lifestyle medicine
7. Pillar 2: Physical activity, health and lifestyle medicine
8. Pillar 3: Stress, distress and its prevention and management
9. Pillar 4: Sleep for a healthy life: The association between sleep, health and lifestyle medicine
10. Pillar 5: Harmful substance exposure and substance misuse, health and lifestyle medicine
11. Pillar 6: Social connection, health and lifestyle medicine
12. Pillar 7: Nature exposure and connection, health and lifestyle medicine
13. Empowering First Nations Health: Addressing health inequity and social determinants of health through Indigenous-led models of care
14. The evidence for shared medical appointments in lifestyle medicine practice
15. Health coaching, motivational interviewing and other ways of encouraging patient activation and self management
16. Best practice in lifestyle medicine for managing chronic illness into remission
17. GLP-1 receptor agonists and the management of metabolic health
18. Lifestyle medicine in the prevention and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
19. Empowering health and health care with lifestyle medicine: A conclusion and a beginning
2. Population health and health inequality
3. Navigating health risks in the Anthropocene
4. Metainflammation: Lifestyle medicine’s germ theory
5. Making us sick to make them rich: The commercial determinants of health and illness
6. Pillar 1: Nutrition for a healthy life. The associations between nutrition, health and lifestyle medicine
7. Pillar 2: Physical activity, health and lifestyle medicine
8. Pillar 3: Stress, distress and its prevention and management
9. Pillar 4: Sleep for a healthy life: The association between sleep, health and lifestyle medicine
10. Pillar 5: Harmful substance exposure and substance misuse, health and lifestyle medicine
11. Pillar 6: Social connection, health and lifestyle medicine
12. Pillar 7: Nature exposure and connection, health and lifestyle medicine
13. Empowering First Nations Health: Addressing health inequity and social determinants of health through Indigenous-led models of care
14. The evidence for shared medical appointments in lifestyle medicine practice
15. Health coaching, motivational interviewing and other ways of encouraging patient activation and self management
16. Best practice in lifestyle medicine for managing chronic illness into remission
17. GLP-1 receptor agonists and the management of metabolic health
18. Lifestyle medicine in the prevention and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
19. Empowering health and health care with lifestyle medicine: A conclusion and a beginning
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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John Anthony Stevens
John Stevens is a health scientist and Associate Professor with Southern Cross University's School of Health and Human Sciences in Australia. In 2008 John co-founded the Australian Society of Lifestyle Medicine LTD. He is one of Australia's emerging leaders and experts in illness prevention and chronic disease management. He has over 30 years of experience and ~60 peer reviewed publications. He's part of True Health Initiative, a global coalition of world-renowned experts.
www.lifestylemedicine.org.au
Affiliations and expertise
Southern Cross University, Australia