Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Occupational Medicine Practice

Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) is delighted to share this new article, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, that outlines how occupational and environmental medicine clinicians and medical directors can integrate Lifestyle Medicine to enhance worker health and performance, manage chronic disease, and facilitate faster recovery from injury and illness.

Abstract

Lifestyle Medicine (LM) utilizes evidence-based therapeutic lifestyle changes to address lifestyle factors that impact health, performance, and injury risk and recovery. By integrating LM principles into clinical care, workplace policies, and programs, along with other evidence-based methods, occupational and environmental medicine clinicians and medical directors can enhance worker health and performance, manage chronic disease, and facilitate faster recovery from injury and illness. This guidance addresses approaches that can be used in the clinic and workplace to address tobacco, substance misuse, nutrition, physical activity, overweight/ obesity, sleep, mental well-being, and social connectedness.