Publications by authors named "Adva Tzuk-Onn"
The Israeli Society for HealthTech aims at advancing the integration of innovation and healthcare entrepreneurship into medical practice and across traditional health professions, to benefit patients and improve quality of care. In 2021, the Society launched the first fellowship for board certified physicians in HealthTech. This backstory discusses the motivation of launching the program and reviews the design of the fellowship, including curriculum, the expertise of the lecturers, and initial tangible results of the program.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Non-communicable diseases are the leading causes of death, largely due to the last century's often-unhealthy lifestyles. Family medicine (FM) and other physicians can improve patients' lifestyle behaviors, yet FM residency programs in Israel and other countries do not uniformly deliver lifestyle medicine (LM) training. The readiness of FM residents to counsel on lifestyle issues is not known.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The WHO estimates that by 2020 two-thirds of the diseases worldwide will be the result of unhealthy lifestyle habits. Less than half of primary care physician graduates feel prepared to give lifestyle behaviour counselling. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of lifestyle medicine (LM) course on self-reported knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy and health behaviour of family medicine residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The actual causes of the preponderance of non-communicable chronic diseases are related to unhealthy behaviours, such as poor nutrition, physical inactivity and tobacco use. Our goal was to evaluate the feasibility of training in lifestyle medicine (LM) for family physicians, which could be included in 'Healthy Israel 2020', a national initiative created to enhance the health of Israelis.
Methods: Twenty-six providers participated in a 1-year certificate of completion in LM.