Lifestyle Medicine describes the role health care practitioners and professionals can play in a consultation with a patient or small group to support healthy lifestyle changes.
However, the most effective way to support people to live healthy lives is to provide the opportunity for us to all do this easily. In other words, we need policy makers, government, local councils, employers and public health teams to increase access to healthy food, green spaces, safe places to be active and meet with others, ways to sustain family life, give up smoking and avoid pollution for example. This is why knowledge and action to support the socioeconomic determinants of health form the first principle of lifestyle medicine.
Although clinicians in their consultations can’t easily improve their local environment and social factors at play, we can still use our influence within our communities to push for action to improve these environmental and social factors. There are also plenty of ways to support patients with the wider determinants of health even in a consultation, for example improving access for those with disabilities or barriers to health care, using exercise on prescription, food vouchers, sickness certification, letters to employees, support to seek benefits and so on.
This study day aims to showcase the way our many Members are finding ways of ensuring lifestyle medicine gets to some of those underserved communities.
This webinar is free to attend and open to all from Clinicians and practitioners working with these areas to patients interested in using lifestyle medicine to manage and prevent chronic illness. All those registered will receive the recording post event.
Approximately 4 hours CPD. Timings subject to change.
Agenda to be released soon.
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