Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare

Sarah Downer; Seth A Berkowitz; Timothy S Harlan; Dana Lee Olstad; Dariush Mozaffarian

doi:10.1136/bmj.m2482

Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare

BMJ. 2020 Jun 29:369:m2482. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2482.

Authors

Sarah Downer¹, Seth A Berkowitz^{2

3}, Timothy S Harlan⁴, Dana Lee Olstad⁵, Dariush Mozaffarian⁶

Affiliations

¹ Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA sdowner@law.harvard.edu.
² Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
³ Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁴ Section of General Internal Medicine George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University Culinary Medicine Program, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁶ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

Sarah Downer and colleagues review new efforts to incorporate food and nutrition into prevention, management, and treatment of diet related disease in healthcare systems

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Consumer Behavior
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated*
Health Education
Health Planning
Humans
Noncommunicable Diseases / prevention & control*
Nutrition Policy
Nutrition Therapy* / trends
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Nutritional Sciences / education
Nutritional Sciences / trends*
Nutritional Status

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding