by Eric Robertson | Nov 5, 2021 | AI, robots & digital health, Clinical Practice, Environmental Sustainability
Recently, you may have seen the widely published editorial in hundreds of health journals calling for emergency action on climate change. While the focus of that editorial was primarily external to healthcare, calling on governments to do more overall, we would be...
by Woyram Kofi-Bediako | Oct 24, 2021 | Clinical Practice, SDGs
The global economic recession following the COVID-19 pandemic, along with changes in climate patterns has magnified already existing global challenges that numerous countries are facing. The urgency to achieve the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has...
by Lisa Newington | Sep 13, 2021 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Sustainability
Over the last decade, many of us have been making the move to a more sustainable way of living. Small incremental steps that collectively add up. Think of the re-fillable coffee cups, tote bags, and widespread shunning of single-use plastic. Consider the food waste...
by Srijani Banerjee | Aug 18, 2021 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy
For the past few years, body and movement have been the prime focus of my professional and personal life. As a physiotherapist and Dance Movement Therapy practitioner this is not surprising and what my practice has made me realise is that movement is the essence of...
by Mariavittoria Anderlini | Jul 19, 2021 | Clinical Practice, EcoHealth, Greenspace Exposure
L’inattività fisica, concorrendo ad arrecare numerosi effetti nocivi sulle patologie croniche, è responsabile di oltre 5 milioni di morti annuali. Per questa ragione è considerabile come una pandemia (1). Ciò, associato ad un’esponenziale crescita della popolazione,...
by Len Kiroplis | Jul 4, 2021 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Sustainability
The plastic crisis has concerned us for decades as both landfilled and incinerated waste continue to pollute the environment and pose health risks to humans and wildlife. With packaging of all sorts being the main source of plastic pollution that is clogging the...
