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...
by Amanda Maddern | Jul 3, 2024 | Biodiversity, EcoHealth, Environmental Issues and Health Impacts, Environmental Physiotherapy, Environmental Sustainability, Global warming, Greenspace Exposure, Planetary Health, SDGs
Between the dates of the October 6-8 2023, Brisbane, Australia became home of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s national conference, IGNITE 2023. I was fortunate enough to attend this conference and was excited and inspired by the keynote presentation titled,...
by Filip Maric | Apr 25, 2024 | Environmental Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Research, Planetary Health
Ever since the founding of the EPA, environmental physiotherapy has been growing from strength to strength. We have produced over 100 academic publications of different types, written over 130 blogposts in more than 10 languages, are producing extensive resources for...
by Esther Tobarra | Jan 22, 2024 | Planetary Health
¿Sabes cuáles son los límites planetarios? Tras el extraordinario progreso de las Ciencias de la Tierra y de los sistemas naturales durante las últimas décadas; en el 2009, un grupo de 29 científicos liderados por Johan Rockström comenzaron a definir lo que hoy se...
by Fernando Wang | Sep 6, 2023 | Planetary Health
¿Qué es el Antropoceno? Descubre 5 datos que debes conocer sobre este nuevo concepto. Dicho de forma más sencilla, la salud planetaria se asienta en tres características: 1 Paul Crutzen, geoquímico holandés y Eugene Stoermer, biólogo americano proponen en el año 2000...
by Esther Tobarra | Aug 7, 2023 | Planetary Health
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) define salud como “un estado de bienestar físico, mental y social que permite el desarrollo óptimo del individuo”. Desde la pura definición del término, la salud planetaria va mucho más allá en su complejidad, ya que aspira a...
