Guidance and Position Statements

This Guide will equip you and your team with information and materials to evaluate your organization’s well-being and health status. Once assessed, it will guide you in developing a plan, collaborating with available resources, and fostering a supportive work environment to maintain positive organizational health. It will assist with systematically implementing the pillars of lifestyle medicine, translating them into industry specific KPIs and performance metrics, and formulating organization-wide health promotion campaigns to optimize the impact of lifestyle medicine, OEM, and Total Worker Health.

This guide is for employer leaders, benefits executives, occupational and environmental medicine clinicians, and practicing lifestyle medicine clinicians. It provides clear recommendations, best practices grounded in evidence, practical frameworks, an implementation roadmap and tools and resources.

This joint statement explores how occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) expertise is developed and maintained around the world and to inform strategies for further international development of OEM.