Healthy Lifestyle Medicine in the Traditional Healthcare Environment – Primary Care and Cardiac Rehabilitation

There is unquestioned value of the need to incorporate Healthy Lifestyle Medicine (HLM) within the traditional models of healthcare. Primary care providers are well positioned to implement HLM as a rountine aspect of their healthcare practice. Unfortunately, barriers for this to occur, including poor professional training in the components of HLM and limitations in the time they have available to spend with patients, result in inadequate delivery of HLM from primary care providers. Thus, new approaches for the delivery of HLM need to be developed that would allow primary care providers better, and more, opportunities to make patient referrals.
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research