Course and Subject Handbook

HS5803 Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Prescription is a core subject of the Graduate Diploma and Master in Lifestyle Medicine. This subject provides a blended theoretical and practical learning process on the assessment and prescription of lifestyle and social health factors including optimising nutrition, fasting, physical activity, sleep, mental wellbeing and mind-body practices, social connection, connection with the natural world and minimising harmful screen and substance use. Students will learn to make lifestyle and social prescription recommendations for the optimisation of human wellbeing and longevity as well as prevention and management of common chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, brain and neurological disease, gastrointestinal disease, mental illness, women's and men's health conditions, musculoskeletal disorders, oncological and immune disorders. Where safe and appropriate, students will also learn to evaluate the options for deprescribing medications for these disorders (deprescribing should only be done by medical professionals). Students will learn to adapt lifestyle and social assessment and prescriptions that are appropriate for varied geographical and cultural backgrounds. This subject will also provide students with the opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary team-based approach to improving patient health outcomes from a lifestyle medicine perspective.