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Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Mechanick, Jeffrey I.; Kushner, Robert F.
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-924685-7
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
- Doody Core Title Score:
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Lifestyle – the manner in which people live – is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease.
It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearl
It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearl
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Mechanick, Jeffrey I.; Kushner, Robert F.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-31-924685-7
- Specialty:
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- Internal Medicine
- Clinical Laboratory Science & Medical Technology
- Critical Care Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 363
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 100
- Doody Core Title Score:
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