Sforzo et al’s (2018) Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC) Compendium provides substantial evidence for a clinical intervention yielding a positive impact on the chronic, often lifestyle-related diseases, scourging our modern health care…
Interdisciplinary team work is a complex process in which different types of staff work together to share expertise, knowledge, and skills to impact on patient care (Nancarrow et…
Lifestyle interventions are likely best accomplished by physicians working with nutritionists/dietitians, exercise physiologists, behavioural therapists, and a variety of other health care professionals. While the majority of…
Practitioners’ abilities to motivate patients to adopt healthy habits can be enhanced by practicing and demonstrating healthy personal lifestyles. Practitioners with healthy personal practices are more likely to discuss prevention…
What is culturally responsive care? By Carteret (2010) The term culturally responsive care is defined as an extension of patient centred-care that includes paying particular attention to social and cultural factors in managing medical encounters…
Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) are ‘consecutive individual medical visits carried out in a supportive group setting of similar patients where all can listen, interact, and learn’.…
In this module, we provide a systematic approach to gather biometric measures and vital signs that can inform your clinical practice and assist in screening and diagnosing lifestyle-related risk factors. We talk through the SNAP…
Egger et al. (2017, p. 11) provide some practice principles for Lifestyle Medicine. They provide a starting point for practice in the field and include the following: …
Where possible, we use evidence-based information to make recommendations for lifestyle-based prescriptions. However, as lifestyle interventions in medicine are a growth area, there is still…
The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where we live and work. We celebrate their ongoing connection to land, sea and culture and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. As a bi-national (or Australasian) society, we also acknowledge ngā iwi Māori as the Tangata Whenua (or people of the land) of Aotearoa. We are committed to upholding the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi, building our relationship with Māori, and working together to improve the health of all First Nations peoples.
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