Description

Lifestyle medicine, a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions, is for all people no matter their background or zip code. Underserved communities and individuals living in low-income and rural neighborhoods are at a higher risk for lifestyle-related chronic diseases but social drivers of health (SDoH) place challenging limitations on their ability to access lifestyle medicine interventions. While SDoH factors fundamentally impede on some patients’ ability to access evidence-based lifestyle medicine treatment, the unfortunate assumption is lifestyle medicine is only for the wealthy. 

This webinar, in partnership with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, will dispel the myth that lifestyle medicine is only for affluent groups and underscore solid examples of lifestyle medicine interventions in health care and other innovative settings that are getting to the root cause of chronic disease and changing health outcomes for historically medically underserved groups.

 Learning Objectives: 

• Explain the significance of cross-sector collaborations in making lifestyle medicine accessible to all communities, including those in need.
• Describe methods for identifying patients' unique needs and the resources available to address social determinants of health (SDoH).
• Analyze successful clinic-based and community-based lifestyle medicine interventions and their impact on positive health outcomes.

Registrants will receive a link to join this virtual webinar upon registration confirmation.