Lifestyle Medicine 101: Universal Medicine for the 21st Century Facilitator: Rob Verkerk PhD
The learning aims for this course are to:
To introduce the emerging discipline of Lifestyle Medicine (in the context of Preventative Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Precision Medicine, Complementary (and Alternative) Medicine, and Conventional Medicine)
To demonstrate the extent and nature of the burden of non-communicable and metabolic diseases on human health and health systems
To learn to interpret health, resilience and disease states from systems biology, ecological and evolutionary perspectives
To learn how to structure and assess determinants and risk factors of lifestyle diseases
To identify key lifestyle factors that contribute to multi-system dysregulation and metabolic diseases
To compare top-down public health policy and messaging with bottom-up individual engagement in Lifestyle Medicine (guided and self-care)
To learn clinically verified ways of motivating and engaging people in behaviour and environmental change
To understand key tenets of Lifestyle Medicine prescription, potential obstacles and barriers, as well as monitoring of compliance and outcome measurement
Target group Health Care Professionals, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Therapists, Healers and the General Public
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