• Startdatum:
  • 7 december 2017
  • Cursusduur:
  • 1 dag
  • Werkzaam als:
  • Huisarts, Paramedicus/ Medisch ondersteuner, Medisch specialist, Specialist Ouderengeneeskunde

Accreditaties

  • NVVC:
  • 7
  • NIV:
  • 6
  • NVK:
  • 6
  • ABC 1:
  • 7

Reversing Type 2 diabetes

Our lifestyles play a significant role in the occurrence of many chronic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes. One out of every twelve adults in the Netherlands has diabetes. In our healthcare system, people with Type 2 diabetes are primarily treated with medication. But medication only treats the symptoms of an underlying problem.

Lifestyle as medicine

There is increasing evidence that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed and sometimes even cured if patients change their lifestyle. But how can lifestyle changes be expected to play such a vital role in curing a disease in a society that practically forces people to make the wrong choices? Does this require adaptions in the environment patients live in and/or changes in our healthcare system? A team of local and international experts will discuss these and many other questions during the first annual symposium on ‘Lifestyle as Medicine’.

Innovation centre launched

The symposium also heralds the launch of a joint knowledge and innovation centre on the theme of metabolic health and lifestyle which will be run by TNO and LUMC. This centre will focus on setting up education programmes as well as on developing and implementing lifestyle as medicine for Type 2 diabetes in the Netherlands and other parts of the world.

Target groups

Internists, paediatricians, specialists in geriatric medicine, social therapists, epidemiologists, dieticians, GPs and people who are in training for these disciplines, as well as representatives of healthcare insurance companies, system biologists, health- and behaviour scientists, pharmaceutical companies, municipalities and national authorities.