Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice: Integrating Evidence-Based Lifestyle Concepts is a unique new resource that is not afraid to address lifestyle concepts that can change the trajectory of healthcare in the United States and globally. It provides practical, evidence-based approaches to reduce the pandemic of preventable lifestyle-related chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, some strokes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and multiple types of cancer. It provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the lifestyle management tools needed to…mehr
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice: Integrating Evidence-Based Lifestyle Concepts is a unique new resource that is not afraid to address lifestyle concepts that can change the trajectory of healthcare in the United States and globally. It provides practical, evidence-based approaches to reduce the pandemic of preventable lifestyle-related chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, some strokes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and multiple types of cancer. It provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the lifestyle management tools needed to contribute to a higher level of care to promote health and prevent disease. The authors take a deep dive into the literature regarding lifestyle concepts and practical management of lifestyle-related chronic diseases. They discuss the root causes of diseases and approaches for patient-centered care, strategies for health promotion reimbursement, and trending telehealth delivery of health care. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice: Integrating Evidence-Based Lifestyle Concepts is the only resource that provides evidence-based, practical approaches to encouraging patient adherence to healthy behaviors.
Loureen Downes, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM, FAANP, NBC-HWC, is a Conner Professor in Nursing and the founding Program Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Florida Gulf Coast University. She has a master's degree in nursing from Florida Atlantic University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Connecticut. As a clinician, Dr. Downes is a board-certified family nurse practitioner, a diplomate of lifestyle medicine, and a health and wellness coach. As a professor, she enjoys teaching nurse practitioner students to use lifestyle as first-line treatment or as an adjunct to traditional treatment regimens. One of her favorite courses to teach is Advanced Health Promotion. Her passion and research interest is to improve dietary habits and physical activity to decrease risk factors for preventable chronic diseases. She frequently contributes to her community and faith-based organization by delivering presentations on preventing and managing chronic diseases through lifestyle behaviors. Her notable research accomplishment includes developing an instrument, the Motivators, and the Barriers of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale, used nationally and internationally. Dr. Downes is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and has presented regionally, nationally, and internationally on lifestyle behaviors.
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