Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease
4th Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-443-15727-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Fourth Edition aims to reduce the burden of chronic diseases by harnessing technology and providing a better understanding of environment-biology interactions, evidence-based interventions, and the underlying mechanisms of chronic diseases. This new edition is greatly expanded to cover major chronic diseases as well as infectious diseases. Led by top experts in the field, the editors provide a framework to promote and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration with an orchestrated common language and an integrated care model to increase the population’s heath span.

The book provides the latest research updates on the pathophysiology of preventable diseases, Clinical updates on interventions for practice, and Public health updates on Precision Medicine / Systems Biology approaches to prevention for clinicians and Interdisciplinary aspects for allied health professionals. It is essential to healthcare professionals who want to: understand the potential of preventing diseases; understand how to maintain health and well-being; understand the implications of preventable diseases for society and individuals; and understand lifestyle aspects in the prevention and treatment of diseases.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sagner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Stoffwechselstörungen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I. Background and Basis for the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment

1. Introduction to the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Medicine

2. The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease

3. A “Germ Theory” Equivalent Approach for Lifestyle Medicine

4. A Structure for Lifestyle Medicine

5. Everything You Wanted to Know About Motivation (But Weren’t Intrinsically Motivated Enough to Ask)

6. Self-Management in Lifestyle Medicine

7. Overweight and Obesity

Section II. Lifestyle and Environmental Determinants of Chronic Disease

8. Nutrition for the Nondietitian

9. Fluids, Fitness, and Fatness

10. Behavioral Aspects of Nutrition

11. Physical Activity

13. Stress

14. Dealing With Worry and Anxiety

15. Depression

16. Happiness and Mental Health

17. Technology-Induced Pathology

18. To Sleep, Perchance to … Get Everything Else Right

19. Health and the Environment

20. Meaninglessness, Alienation, and Loss of Culture/Identity (MAL) as Determinants of Chronic Disease

21. Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level

22. Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context

23. Understanding Addictions

24. Medicines

25. Relationships, Social Inequity, and Distal Factors in Lifestyle Medicine

Section III. Other Issues for Lifestyle Medicine

26. Sex and Lifestyle

27. Lifestyle and Oral Health

28. Lifestyle and Environmental Influences on Skin

29. Lifestyle-Related Aspects of Gastrointestinal Health

Section IV. The Future of Health

30. The Next Chapter

Über Autor(innen)

Sagner, Michael
Michael Sagner, MD is a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine and preventive medicine. He is also a certified fitness trainer and certified sports nutritionist. He is founding head of several international projects focused on clinical chronic disease and risk factor treatment and prevention. Michael Sagner is actively involved in scientific research in the field of preventive medicine and has developed the ‘cell to community’ approach, which aims at connecting basic research, clinical medicine and public health to address chronic diseases. His research interests are the underlying mechanisms and causes of chronic diseases and interdisciplinary approaches in clinical treatment. His research considers the complex interactions within the human body in light of a patient's lifestyle, genomics and environment.