by Jessica Stanhope | Apr 29, 2026 | Planetary Health
We are all aware of the negative health effects associated with sugar consumption, but have you thought about the planetary health implications of its production? Holidaying in Far North Queensland a few years ago brought home to me the scale of the destruction of the...
by Jessica Stanhope | Mar 26, 2026 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Nature-based interventions
Ever wonder how other allied health professionals are integrating nature-based approaches into their practice? We conducted a survey of allied health professionals in Australia who were interested in nature-based approaches to find out what they were doing, what...
by Jessica Stanhope | Mar 25, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability, Nature-based interventions
The original green prescriptions Green prescriptions are prescriptions to spend time in green space, right? Not necessarily. A “green prescription” was a term first coined in New Zealand in the 1990s to describe a written prescriptions for physical activity made by a...
by Jessica Stanhope | Jan 20, 2025 | Biodiversity, Clinical Practice, Environmental Physiotherapy, Events, Nature-based interventions, Physiotherapy Research
I’m really excited to introduce the International Environmental Allied Health Journal Club! The purpose of the group is to support people interested in environmental health in staying up-to-date with developments in the evidence base, and to have interesting...
by Jessica Stanhope | Sep 30, 2024 | Clinical Practice, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Education, Physiotherapy Research, Planetary Health
In August 2019 the Environmental Physiotherapy Association was launched. In the last 5 years the Association has made huge progress in highlighting the links between the environment and human health, and the role of physiotherapy in protecting, improving and utilising...
