Teaming Up with Public Health: Lifestyle Medicine

Grantee: American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $250,000

Report Status: Report not posted

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Project Summary: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is committed to enhancing health outcomes for families and communities through the integration of lifestyle medicine into mainstream primary care. Emphasizing collaboration and partnership development, this project will break down silos by identifying ways to align strategies, programs, and processes across primary care providers, public health, and community-based organizations using whole person health approaches through a health equity framework.

The proposed resources will help establish the nomenclature and a shared language for understanding across family medicine, public health, and community-based organizations. The goals for this project are to 1) Leverage existing materials and develop resources to increase awareness and understanding of the whole person health approach among AAFP members; 2) Provide support and technical assistance to a cohort of family medicine practices; and 3) Document lessons learned and disseminate findings across public health, lifestyle medicine, and family medicine audiences.

Anticipated outcomes of this project are 1) Increased availability and access to technical assistance, products, and other resources; 2) Increased awareness and understanding of whole person health concepts among AAFP members; and 3) Increased awareness of findings and tools. This project will strengthen the system infrastructure needed to equitably implement whole person health approaches into family medicine.