by Srishti Banerjee | Nov 4, 2020 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Sustainability
Healthcare systems have a significant carbon footprint generated through basic infrastructure, medical diagnostic and surgical procedures, as well as patients post-operative hospital stays. There is a growing body of research across various countries looking to...
by Shaun Cleaver | Oct 1, 2020 | Disaster relief and humanitarian emergenciess, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Planetary Health
Shaun and Mathieu are physiotherapists with experience in disaster response. They were accepted to present a workshop at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association’s “Congress 2020” on the use of the disaster cycle to conceptualize the roles of physiotherapists in the...
by Filip Maric | Apr 23, 2020 | Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Physiotherapy Education, SDGs
Today we are excited to announce that the EPA has joined the Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project (PREP) as associate partner. PREP is an Erasmus+ project led by the Western University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway. It seeks to address the mismatch...
by Filip Maric | Mar 19, 2020 | Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Human-Animal Relations
I remain unsure how to start this blogpost. The only thing that seems fairly clear is that I am trying to make sense of the current COVID-19 pandemic and I suspect that the same is true for many others. Because of my recent preoccupation with the implicit and explicit...
