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Building the sustainable healthcare movement

Building the sustainable healthcare movement

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....
The inexorable March: Climate Change, Disability, and a Growing Urgency

The inexorable March: Climate Change, Disability, and a Growing Urgency

by Monica Roe | May 2, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Disability, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Global warming

There used to be a runway made of ice. Every winter, when the wild Bering Sea solidified between the tiny village of Little Diomede and the military outpost at nearby Big Diomede, the United States and Russia was temporarily connected by a thick, two-mile stretch....
Measures for improving the environmental sustainability of Norwegian physiotherapy services

Measures for improving the environmental sustainability of Norwegian physiotherapy services

by Hanna Gronvold | Apr 4, 2023 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability

It does not take a lot to understand that climate change is a problem too big for anybody to solve on their own. Truthfully, it can be overwhelming and demotivating, feeling that you are fighting on your own against the world. I recently wrote my bachelor’s...
Sustainability in orthopaedic physiotherapy and rehabilitation

Sustainability in orthopaedic physiotherapy and rehabilitation

by Annie Palstam | Nov 8, 2022 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability, SDGs

With the goal of decarbonization and carbon neutrality in the health sectors of many countries by 2050, health professionals must implement systemic changes in clinical practice to reduce carbon use, whilst meeting equity targets and improving health outcomes. Methods...
An evidence-based guide for decarbonizing physiotherapy clinics

An evidence-based guide for decarbonizing physiotherapy clinics

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...
Nature as co-therapist: Physiosail and the connection between disability and environment

Nature as co-therapist: Physiosail and the connection between disability and environment

by Christina Groll | Oct 13, 2022 | Aquatic PT and bluespace exposure, Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy

The definition of disability and disabled people depends on the model used. The most widely used model in the health system is the “medical model”. It assumes disability as an individual mental or physical impairment that is independent of environmental...
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