Lifestyle Medicine and Climate Change: The Role of Providers in Addressing a Public Health Challenge. Issue 2 (March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bernstein, Adam; Katz, David L.
• Is Part Of: American journal of lifestyle medicine. Volume 16:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 251
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2022-03
• Subjects: lifestyle medicine -- climate change -- habits -- technology -- transportation; Medicine, Preventive -- Periodicals; Lifestyles -- Health aspects -- Periodicals; Health behavior -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1177/15598276211017097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1559-8276

Abstract

Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to improve human health through lifestyle modification. Lifestyle medicine providers, however, may be well positioned to help patients create new healthful and climate-friendly habits, such as adopting a plant-based diet and limiting or eliminating car travel. Through each provider's own example and patient engagement efforts, as well as though new technology and the collective action of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the broader lifestyle medicine community can play an outsized role in addressing climate change.