Lifestyle Medicine

Overview

Learning outcomes of the Lifestyle Medicine programme at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

• consult individuals about healthy lifestyle (nutrition (diet), physical activity, harmful habits and stress control) on matters within their competences, according to the need in collaboration with health care professionals;

• evaluate the risk of harmful habits and addictions, unhealthy nutrition, lack of physical activity and other health risk factors;

• ability to increase personal motivation to change behavior, to create a personal behavioral correction plan and assess changes of behavior;

• ground priority of health strategy and policies, principles of health system management and evaluation, modern health impact assessment methods; promote and implement in practice modern healthy lifestyle principles for the society;

• define needs and possibilities of the primary, secondary and tertiary disease prevention; implement interventions, based on disease prevention programs, environment and lifestyle change projects; implement them and evaluate their effectiveness;

• identify and assess the environmental, lifestyle, psychosocial and biological health risk factors; holistically approach to their management;

• analyze and interpret the population health indicators, organize and implement population and individual health monitoring and evaluation;

After the graduation you can:

• prevent and manage different risk factors, change individual behaviors related to chronic noncommunicable diseases, and also work as members in medical teams, especially primary services setting, public health bureaus and private practice;

• continue studies for doctoral degree;