Role of Physician and Physician's Personal Health

Question 1

What is the Blue Zone Project?

Answer 1

A collaboration between community leaders, educators, health providers, public service officials and community - to transform cities into places of longevity through healthy community systems

Question 2

What are Blue Zones and what 9 characteristics do they have in common?

Answer 2

Blue Zones are communities in which people live the longest. The 9 common characteristics are:

• moving naturally (PA) - sense of purpose
• mainly plant-based diet - stop eating when 80% full
• relax - down shift - family first
• find right tribe - belong to something greater

Question 3

What is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to achieve?

Answer 3

“Creating a Culture of Health”

Collaboration between community leader and medical providers to bring about better health of all in cities

Question 4

Dean Ornish successfully advocated to have what reimbursed by Medicare?

Answer 4

A plant-based cardiac rehab programme

Question 5

Give 3 examples of lifestyle medicine advocacy projects

Answer 5

1) The Blue Zone Project
2) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
3) Dean Ornish, MD (plant-based cardiac rehab prog)

Question 6

Which of the following behaviours is not positively associated with counselling for the same health behaviour re male internists?
Smoking, alcohol, exercise (PA), seat belt use

Answer 6

ALCOHOL

Question 7

In 2012 what % of primary care physicians were found to be obese?

Answer 7

53%

Question 8

In 2009 what % of physicians admitted to:

1) no / occasional exercise?
2) stress?
3) <7hrs sleep

Answer 8

35% (no exercise)
53% (stress)
34% (<7hr sleep)

Question 9

In female internist personal health practices for PA were assoc with counselling patients in what 2 aspects of health?

Answer 9

Physical activity

Alcohol