Open AccessLifestyle medicine: The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of a developing discipline
Author(s) -
Garry Egger
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
australian journal of general practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2208-794X
pISSN - 2208-7958
DOI - 10.31128/ajgp-06-19-4955
Subject(s) - lifestyle medicine , alternative medicine , medicine , epidemiology , engineering ethics , gerontology , family medicine , pathology , engineering
Changes in living conditions throughout history typically result in changes in the pattern of diseases. The modern post-industrial era has resulted in a shift from predominantly infectious to predominantly chronic diseases, or those with a significant lifestyle/environmental aetiology. This has led to the development of an adjunct discipline of lifestyle medicine.