by Tibo Uyttersprot | May 23, 2023 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Physiotherapy Association and Health Care Without Harm Europe are excited to announce a new strategic partnership to advance the sustainable healthcare movement. Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe exists to create a sustainable healthcare sector....
by David Duindam | Oct 25, 2022 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Environmental Sustainability
Climate change is the largest threat to human health and wellbeing globally (WHO, 2021). The healthcare industry itself currently contributes to fuelling the climate crisis with its emissions and material consumption (Karliner et al., 2020). There has been much...
by Jessica Stanhope | Feb 3, 2022 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Greenspace Exposure
For many of us, COVID-19 has meant restrictions on what we do and where we go. These restrictions may include lockdowns, which prevent us from leaving our homes, through to supervised quarantine, often in hotels. These restrictions have been criticised because of the...
by Nafsika Michail | Nov 25, 2020 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice, Greenspace Exposure
Physical Environment & Health It is well documented that the physical environment influences population health, has an impact on chronic diseases and could have a preventative role on human’s health and wellbeing by promoting physical activity (Sallis et al.,...
by Olivia Stone | Mar 11, 2020 | Clinic Design, Physiotherapy Education
The move towards an environmentally sustainable teaching facility for clinical physiotherapy practice or even a private community practice is a challenging task. We asked our staff and students what they would like to see changed. The younger staff and students, who...
by Evan Thomas | Jan 27, 2020 | Clinic Design, Clinical Practice
After launching the EPA a few months ago, it quickly became clear that one of the topics that had huge interest behind them was about what physiotherapy clinicians, clinic owners and teams could do to be more environmentally responsible in their day-to-day clinical...
