Occupational Therapy Proposal Essay

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Currently, 75% of the deaths in the United States are caused by non communicable diseases, NCDs, (CDC, 2016). These NCDs include: heart disease, cancer, hypertension, stroke, obstructive lung disease, diabetes, and obesity (CDC, 2016). In order to decrease the number of deaths caused by NCDs, many health care providers have begun using lifestyle medicine based interventions (Hart, 2102). Lifestyle medicine is defined as the application of simple, natural healing approaches to chronic disease care and prevention (Dysinger, 2013). However, many of these providers do not address NCDs until they have already developed. For this reason, more research is needed to explore the effectiveness of lifestyle medicine based interventions for individuals who are at high risk for developing NCDs. Specifically, the prospective study aims examine the efficacy of occupational therapy interventions in preventing or slowing the progression of NCDs. …show more content…

Occupational therapist’s often help clients to improve their health outcomes, by utilizing a holistic approach which focuses on activities of daily living, habits, and routines. Despite their role in the improvement of health outcomes, occupational therapy is sparsely represented in lifestyle medicine practice (Hildebrand & Lamb, 2013). In addition, although previous research has verified the validity of lifestyle medicine based interventions (Drozek et al, 2014; Harati et al, 2010; Sagner et al, 2014; Stampfer et al, 2000) very few have looked at the role of occupational therapy in lifestyle medicine (Mann, ; Hildebrand & Lamb, 2013).Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy based interventions in lifestyle

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