The Lifestyle Medicine Center
摘要
The lifestyle medicine center’s (LMC’s) mission is to engage people from the community to experience comprehensive, scientifically proven health benefits. Patients are encouraged to become ambassadors for a healthy lifestyle and promote it within their communities fomenting a cultural swing toward healthy behavior, environments, and outcomes. As part of this watershed effect, LMCs generate informational materials and arrange workshops to engage individuals, communities, and corporations as part of organized educational campaigns. Younger populations are targeted with novel approaches such as “A different type of school week” allowing children in Romania to participate in creative activities rather than traditional classes. This nurtures environmentally conscious younger generations to teach future, healthier generations. In this chapter, the role of the LMC in closing practice gaps in lifestyle medicine will be explored, primarily drawing from the experiences of a newly constructed and operational LMC in Bucharest, Romania.