TY - JOUR
T1 - Who will deliver comprehensive healthy lifestyle interventions to combat non-communicable disease? Introducing the healthy lifestyle practitioner discipline
AU - Arena, Ross
AU - Lavie, Carl J.
AU - Hivert, Marie France
AU - Williams, Mark A.
AU - Briggs, Paige D.
AU - Guazzi, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Unhealthy lifestyle characteristics (i.e., physical inactivity, excess body mass, poor diet, and smoking) as well as associated poor health metrics (i.e., dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension) are the primary reasons for the current non-communicable disease crisis. Compared to those with the poorest of lifestyles and associated health metrics, any movement toward improving lifestyle and associated health metrics improves health outcomes. To address the non-communicable disease crisis we must: 1) acknowledge that healthy lifestyle (HL) interventions are a potent medicine; and 2) move toward a healthcare system that embraces primordial as much as, if not more than, secondary prevention with a heavy focus on HL medicine. This article introduces the Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner, focused on training health professionals to deliver HL medicine.
AB - Unhealthy lifestyle characteristics (i.e., physical inactivity, excess body mass, poor diet, and smoking) as well as associated poor health metrics (i.e., dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension) are the primary reasons for the current non-communicable disease crisis. Compared to those with the poorest of lifestyles and associated health metrics, any movement toward improving lifestyle and associated health metrics improves health outcomes. To address the non-communicable disease crisis we must: 1) acknowledge that healthy lifestyle (HL) interventions are a potent medicine; and 2) move toward a healthcare system that embraces primordial as much as, if not more than, secondary prevention with a heavy focus on HL medicine. This article introduces the Healthy Lifestyle Practitioner, focused on training health professionals to deliver HL medicine.
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U2 - 10.1586/14779072.2016.1107477
DO - 10.1586/14779072.2016.1107477
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26524498
AN - SCOPUS:84949729331
VL - 14
SP - 15
EP - 22
JO - Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
JF - Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
SN - 1477-9072
IS - 1
ER -