Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2027 - Sustainable healthcare and planetary health education across the curriculum
Photo by Devin Berko on UnsplashThe EPT Agenda 2027 aims at the cross-curricular implementation of planetary health, environmental, and sustainability education into physiotherapy training around the world. Where the EPT Agenda 2023 worked on the identification of starting points for this same purpose, this second phase will look to connect the dots between them such that sustainability and planetary health can become cross-cutting elements of international physiotherapy education.
The EPT Agenda 2027 builds on the success of the EPT Agenda 2023, the initial phase of our international effort to introduce planetary health, environmental, and sustainability education into physiotherapy training around the world. While the focus of the EPT Agenda 2023 was simply to make a start at integrating EPT education into physiotherapy training, we are setting our ambitions at transversal integration across the physiotherapy curriculum during this second phase.
Publications
Richter, R., & Maric, F. (2022). Ecological Bodies and Relational Anatomies: Toward a Transversal Foundation for Planetary Health Education. Challenges, 13(2), 39. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe13020039
Maric, F., Chance-Larsen, K., Chevan, J., Jameson, S., Nicholls, D., Opsommer, E., Perveen, W., Richter, R., Stanhope, J., Stone, O., Strimpakos, N., Vieira, A., Williams, M., Zuber. S., Söderlund, A. (2021). A progress report on planetary health, environmental and sustainability education in physiotherapy – Editorial. European Journal of Physiotherapy, 1-2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21679169.2021.1932981
Guzmán, C. A. F., Aguirre, A., Astle, B., Barros, E., Bayles, B., Chimbari, M., El-Abbadi, N., Evert, J., Hackett, F., Howard, C., Jennings, J., Krzyzek, A., LeClair, J., Maric, F., Martin, O., Osano, O., Patz, J. A., Potter, T., Redvers, N., Trienekens, N., Walpole, S. C., Wilson, L., Xu, C., & Zylstra, M. J. (2021). A framework to guide planetary health education. The Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00110-8
Barna, S., Maric, F., Simons, J., Kumar, S., & Blankestijn, P. J. (2020). Education for the Anthropocene: Planetary health, sustainable health care, and the health workforce. Medical Teacher, 42(10), 1091–1096. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2020.1798914
Maric, F., Nicholls, D., Mostert, K., Culpan, J., Stone, O., van Wijchen, J., Kennedy, M., Long, I., Bundtzen, T. (2020). The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023. Oslo: Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA). ISBN: 978-82-303-4491-0. https://environmentalphysio.com/education/ept-agenda-2023
Contact
For more information and questions about the EPT Agenda 2027 please contact Filip Maric (PhD)