Why preventative healthcare is critical to sustainable healthcare and how physiotherapy supports this

by David Duindam | Mar 3, 2023 | Environmental Physiotherapy, SDGs

Although the healthcare sector is a critical service provider in every country, it possesses a significant environmental footprint (Malik, Lenzen, McAlister, & McGain, 2018). Without intervention, emissions from the healthcare sector are predicted to rise due to a...

Access to clean and healthy environments is now a universal human right

by Erin Keough | Dec 5, 2022 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Planetary Health, SDGs

The United Nations (UN) declared access to clean and healthy environments a universal human right in July 2022. This historic decision was voted in favour by 161 countries. But what exactly does this mean? And how does this apply to health care 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...

Environmental physiotherapy and ENPHE The European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education

by Filip Maric | Sep 16, 2022 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Physiotherapy Education, SDGs

Exciting news seem a near regularity in environmental physiotherapy now. And why not. With so much that still needs doing, we need them very much. The latest in the series, effective as of today, is a new partnership with ENPHE – The European Network of...

Gesundheit braucht Klimaschutz – drei Tage auf Messe und Kongress therapie Leipzig

by Emily Angst | Jul 20, 2022 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Planetary Health, SDGs, Students in EPT

„Irritieren und Inspirieren“ war gemeinsam mit dem Health For Future (H4F) – Slogan „Gesundheit braucht Klimaschutz“ unser Motto. Unser Ziel war, Menschen durch Bewusstseinsschaffung für die Auswirkungen der Klimakrise auf unsere Gesundheit zu sensibilisieren...

Environmental physiotherapy at the bottom of the Arctic Sea

by Filip Maric | May 3, 2022 | Aquatic PT and bluespace exposure, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Philosophies, Physiotherapy Research, SDGs

A little over one year ago, one of our first-year physiotherapy students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway wrote a fictional account of a future in which multidisciplinary teams of natural scientists, physiotherapists and many others were tasked to sail to the...