A proposal re life-styles medicine with emphasis on the preventability and reversibility of aging processes at any age, via appropriate-enough health behaviors – spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically(including environmentally).
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Purpose:
The establishment of a health-promotion (education/assistance/empowerment)-resource/center, serving as a repository and a clearing-house of quality, evidence-based information to be disseminated towards the enhancement of whole-person/family/community-oriented self- and mutual-care.
A cardinal underpinning of the project will be the field and topics of appropriate-enough life-styles (health-related-behaviors), as pertaining to all existential realms – spirit-mind-body-environment, holistically (‘systems’-wise) intertwined. A main subject thereof is the preventability, slowing down and reversibility of aging processes at any age, via life-styles medicine.
‘Life-styles medicine’ – self and mutual care-oriented sustenance and amelioration of health and quality-of-life via appropriate-enough lifestyles (psychological, physiological, and ecological), while having become only recently a formal health-care discipline (see, for example, the textbook: Egger, G. Binns, A. Rossner, S. (2008). Lifestyle Medicine. McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd. And http://www.acpm.org/LifestyleMedicine.htm for a Framework for a Life-styles Medicine Task force and an extensive literature survey by the American College of Preventive Medicine), has been increasingly substantiated and acknowledged over the last decades by mainstream medicine as a cardinal and crucial dimension of:
- Health maintenance (preventative medicine)
- Health restoration (clinical medicine)
- Ongoing enhancement of health and wellness – beyond the lack of overt illness (health promotion)
A special feature of the endeavor is its grounding in the Jewish traditional sources (Talmudic and otherwise, mainly Rambam).
Services to be offered:
- An audio-visual manual/kit, updatable and up-gradable.
- Workshops (targeted at various sectors) in communities and via webinars
- Clinical applications (video-consultations).
Staff:
2 M.D and/or N.D, half-time each at least,
Informatics assistant.
מכון הקונטינואום החדש, ירושלים. 