Practicing Lifestyle Medicine in the Rural Health Clinic
Presenter: Getty Israel, MPH, Public Health Practitioner and Author, When Poor Was Healthy
By 2020, two-thirds of all chronic disease worldwide will be the result of lifestyle choices. Currently, the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Mississippi are lifestyle related: poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity, tobacco use, and overconsumption of alcohol. Yet, most medical providers in the State fail to prescribe any more than a prescription drug. The Mississippi medical provider can play a crucial role in assisting patients that have hypertension, diabetes, or heart disease or who are at risk of developing these conditions to prevent and in many instances reverse these conditions by encouraging and directing them to make lifestyle changes that will reduce the risk of developing a condition or worsening it.
The all-day seminar is designed to change your competence and performance-in-practice by increasing your knowledge of Lifestyle Medicine and helping you develop strategies to incorporate it into patient care, providing the newest science of nutrition, physical activity, and management skills. The course will focus on effectively counseling your patients to improve their overall lifestyle, including stress management, diet, and exercise. Participants who complete the seminar will receive a certificate of completion from Pathway to Wellness, LLC.
Reasons to Attend:
- Incorporating lifestyle medicine into your current practice
- Leveraging lifestyle medicine to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, depression, anxiety, osteoporosis, and certain cancers
- Current and Coming Reimbursement Opportunities
- The strategies that produce the best results for weight-loss counseling
- Guidance to prescribe exercise and perform risk assessments
- Health coaching (why it’s important to therapy)
- Clinician self-care: Being a health role model
- Getting patients to make healthy changes
- Improving patient communication and motivational interviewing
- Building an effective lifestyle medicine team
- Engaging resistant patients
- Effectively prescribing exercise or increased physical activity
More information and online registration: Rural Hospital + RHC Workshop: Practicing Lifestyle Medicine in the Rural Health Clinic
