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1Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA (LLH).
Abstract:
Lifestyle medicine is a critically important part of optimizing holistic health across the life course of individuals. For children and adolescents, lifestyle medicine with the focus on developing healthy lifestyle behaviors, is initiated early in life and emphasizes multidisciplinary, multisectoral efforts. Central to these efforts is primordial prevention, with an emphasis on developing and maintaining healthy patterns of lifestyle behaviors. Viewed within a socio-ecological model of health and behavior, contexts including families, schools, and communities interact to influence and impact the health of children and adolescents. Nurses and nursing organizations and societies promote pediatric lifestyle medicine with the aim of promoting optimal health and development for all children.
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