Building Health Equity: Action Steps From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Disparities Solutions Summit (HDSS) 2020
This paper provides background on the realities of health disparities in the United States, introduces the entrance point of lifestyle medicine (LM) practice in the struggle for health equity, and summarizes Summit proceedings and recommended action steps. The paper was published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
Ardmore Institute of Health provided support for this summit and publication to address lifestyle-related chronic disease health disparities with particular emphasis on inequities impacting dietary lifestyle and stress in historically marginalized communities.
