Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine Into Occupational Medicine Practice: ACOEM Guidance Statement
Pamela A Hymel1, Gregg M Stave, Wayne N Burton
1From the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
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.
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