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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

Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease combines the most updated and available research with personal insigh… Read more

Description

Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease combines the most updated and available research with personal insights and experience, using the Lifestyle Medicine 6 pillar framework. The book engages readers not only in the description and efficacy of LM but also in its knowledge and discussions on concepts and behaviors for managing nutrition, physical activity, stress, mental health, and how our interactions with the environment can create a healthier, happier life. It will encourage clinicians to engage their patients more often, and more practically, with lifestyle medicine, while also helping consumers engage with their clinicians.

With a goal of helping clinicians and healthcare related professionals prevent and manage lifestyle-related illnesses for life, this evidenced-based book can be used by anyone in healthcare. It is also ideal for those researching illness prevention and chronic disease management to improve health research practice and patient outcomes.

Key features

  • Presents a new paradigm and movement in health care to help sustain human health and improve patient outcomes
  • Explains the new worldwide movement of Lifestyle Medicine in an accessible manner
  • Helps clinicians and other healthcare sector professionals integrate LM into clinical practice
  • Covers health quality impacts of sleep, stress, the environment, and more

Readership

Researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals

Table of contents

1. Defining and describing Lifestyle Medicine: Why the need to know it

2. Population perspective & health inequality

3. Personal vs public health

4. Risks and barriers to good health

5. Life course

6. Pillar 1: Nutrition and diet for a healthy life: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

7. Pillar 2: Physical activity and exercise: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

8. Pillar 3: Sleep: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

9. Pillar 4: Excessive stress and its management: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

10. Pillar 5 (Part 1): Mental health

11. Pillar 5 (Part 2): Healthy Relationships with other people and the natural environment: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

12. Pillar: 6 Harmful substances: What we know and how you can use the knowledge

13. Lifestyle Medicine and First Nations Peoples Health

14. How to communicate Lifestyle Medicine with your health care team

15. Future health and health care

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2027
  • Language: English

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