Coming to part 3, here we have already talked about what lifestyle medicine is. What is the origin? Let's learn about that. In practice What can and must we do in this regard?

1. Food and nutrition

2. Exercise

3. Stress management

4. Sleep

5. Substances

6. Creating networks and social support for good health

7. Creating good mental health

8. Caring for good health protection

9. Controlling environmental health factors and

10. Promoting changes in health behavior

Lifestyle medicine is considered a new approach to health, but it is actually not new. But we used the wrong brand. So it's not popular in the market. I have been working according to this concept and approach since 1968, but using the brand: "Health education" is action to create healthy behavior of individuals and families. Community and society To sell the idea that health education is not just about giving knowledge. But it takes decades to promote and develop health behaviors in various ways.

Forget that when there is a product that can be sold in the health industry, it must have the brand name "Medicine" in order to be able to sell it. Therefore, the market for lifestyle medicine is likely to be a new market both in Thailand and in the world. What is the matter of this component of lifestyle medicine? If a doctor comes to study Dissemination is carried out systematically in an interdisciplinary manner. between various fields of health and other fields that have a role related to health. Should be successful without much difficulty

Course MPH5606 Health Literacy

By Dr. Thanawat Imsomboon