Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new discipline, which bridges the gap between health promotion and conventional medicine. It involves a range of health professionals working as a team to prevent, manage and treat the ~70% of modern health problems which have a lifestyle-based cause.

Lifestyle medicine is defined as "the application of environmental, behavioural, medical and motivational principles to the management of lifestyle related health problems in the clinical setting." (Egger, Binns and Rossner, 2008 link)

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The structure of Lifestyle Medicine in Australia

Lifestyle medicine is specifically aimed at the 14 different disciplines eligible for health care benefits in Australia under the Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) system. These are:

General Practitioners (GPs), practice nurses, dietitians, psychologists, exercise physiologists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, carers, Aboriginal health workers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, dentists, diabetes educators…

The GP is the co-ordinator of a team of a minimum of 3 practitioners who can operate under a TCA or team care arrangement or case conferencing (CC) schemes.