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Time for Lifestyle Medicine to Take Injury Prevention Seriously
Braden D Teitge1, Louis Hugo Francescutti1
1University of Alberta School of Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
|September 12, 2018
Summary
Injuries remain a major global public health issue, despite limited progress in prevention. Lifestyle medicine offers a promising approach to reduce injury burden through advocacy and education.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Preventive Medicine
- Lifestyle Medicine
Background:
- Injuries are a significant global health problem, causing 1 in 10 deaths worldwide.
- Progress in injury prevention has been limited over the past two decades.
- Injury burden is projected to increase, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the under-recognized burden of injuries globally.
- To emphasize the limited attention injury prevention receives from key sectors.
- To explore the potential role of lifestyle medicine in injury prevention.
Main Methods:
- Review of the current status of injury as a public health problem.
- Analysis of the lack of focus on injury prevention in policy and healthcare.
- Identification of opportunities for lifestyle medicine practitioners in injury prevention.
Main Results:
- Injuries continue to be a leading cause of death globally.
- Legislators, education systems, and healthcare systems pay insufficient attention to injury prevention.
- The lifestyle medicine community is emerging as a key player in addressing injury prevention.
Conclusions:
- Lifestyle medicine practitioners are well-positioned to promote injury prevention.
- Integrating injury prevention into physical activity and lifestyle changes is crucial.
- Lifestyle medicine can contribute through legislation support, advocacy, education, and clinical integration.
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