The Health of Health Care Professionals

Overview

Journal Am J Lifestyle Med

Publisher Sage Publications

Date 2021 Apr 1

PMID 33790698

Citations 9

Authors

Lauren Holtzclaw

Katherine R Arlinghaus

Craig A Johnston

Affiliations

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Abstract

Health care professionals represent a population at high risk for poor health. Although this may be counterintuitive given their expertise in health, the high stress and long hours of many medical work environments present challenges for health care professionals to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors. This is extremely problematic for the health and well-being of both health care professionals and the patients they treat. Medical settings are encouraged to implement interventions that intervene at both the enviornmental and personal level to help faciliate behavior change among health care providers.

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