Building Health Equity: Action Steps From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Disparities Solutions Summit (HDSS) 2020

Feb 18

This paper, published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, provides background on the realities of health disparities in the United States, introduces the entrance point of lifestyle medicine (LM) practice in the struggle for health equity, and summarizes Summit proceedings and recommended action steps.

Ardmore Institute of Health helped support this summit to address lifestyle-related chronic disease health disparities with particular emphasis on inequities impacting dietary lifestyle and stress in historically marginalized communities.

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