WHPA Health Improvement Card available through Physiopedia
- avoid tobacco use and harmful alcohol consumption
- improve diet
- undertake regular sufficient physical activity
- achieve and maintain healthy weight
- manage tension and stress
- access preventive care and screening for preventable illness.
The Buzz of World Physical Therapy Day!
For World Physical Therapy Day we created an entire new section on non-comunicable diseases. In alignment with the United Nations summit on non-communicable disease we wanted to demonstrate the enormous contribution the we, the physiotherapy profession, can make in countering non-communicable diseases. These pages in Physiopedia can be used to publicise our work, educate the public and policy makers about what we do, and try and ensure that people around the world benefit from our skills. Many people do not recognise the contribution physiotherapists make in keeping people healthy and independent, so join us to let them know!! These pages are still open for editing and we welcome continued contributions.
See the pages here:
In addition we joined in the World Physical Therapy buzz on twitter, we were:
- tweeting amongst ourselves using the hashtags #WPTD2011 #PhysioPT
- tweeting to the people of the world using the hashtags #physiotherapy #physicaltherapy
Navigate back to September 8th on any of these hashtags to see what the profession was tweeting about on World Physical Therapy Day 2011. I wonder what technology we will be using next year…?
We’ve nearly been visited by all the countries in the world!!
If you’ve been news over the past few months you will have been following our quest to be visited by all the countries in the world. Well, we have again improved on last month and have now been visited by 192 countries, leaving us only 4 left to go!! The statistics are phenomenal, not only have we been visited by nearly all the countries in the world but last month alone we had visits from 153 countries. The global reach that Physiopedia has is truly amazing!
See the ‘visits by country’ statistics here.
With such a global reach Physiopedia is a place where we can all contribute to collaborate to enhance knowledge, form an international understanding for our profession and create a global force to promote our profession. We, you, all of us together can and will make a difference. By developing this free and open knowledge resource together we can make a difference to global health. If you are keen to get involved but don’t know where to start why not join us on World Physical Therapy Day on Sept 8th and contribute to our pages on non-communicable diseases.
Join Us for World Physical Therapy Day on Sept 8th.
World Physical Therapy Day falls on 8th September every year, and is an opportunity for physiotherapists from all over the world to raise awareness about the crucial contribution we make to keeping people well, mobile and independent. This year it coincides with a world event of vital importance to physiotherapists and their efforts to improve the impact of the profession on global health. This September, just 11 days after World Physical Therapy Day, the United Nations will hold its first ever summit on non-communicable disease – only the second such meeting to focus on global disease. The summit is an official recognition that non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer) are an increasing global health challenge. Our profession helps millions of people every year to prevent these conditions. This summit provides an opportunity for physiotherapists around the world to use World Physical Therapy Day on 8th September to demonstrate the enormous contribution of physiotherapy in countering non-communicable disease (NCDs). Let’s all get together in Physiopedia to show the world how we can contribute.
Physiopedia will be focusing on developing pages on non-communicable diseases in our Global Health special interest area and will be developing the following areas:
World Physical Therapy Day is particularly important this year. It is a day when we can publicise our work, educate the public and policy makers about what we do, and try and ensure that the public benefit from their skills. Many people do not recognise the contribution physiotherapists make in keeping people healthy and independent, so join us to let them know!! Any physiotherapist can join us in creating these pages, register for an account today so that you too can contribute your knowledge to let the world know just how much we can help.
Join Physiopedia to tell the world how we can contribute to the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
World Physical Therapy Day is approaching and this year it coincides with a world event of vital importance to physiotherapists and their efforts to improve the impact of the profession on global health. On September 19th, just 11 days after World Physical Therapy Day, the United Nations will hold its first ever summit on non-communicable disease, only the second such meeting to focus on global disease. The summit is an official recognition that non-communicable diseases are an increasing global health challenge.
Our profession helps millions of people every year to prevent these conditions and their risk factors. This summit provides an opportunity for physiotherapists around the world to use World Physical Therapy Day on 8th September to demonstrate the enormous contribution of physiotherapy in countering non-communicable disease (NCDs). Let’s all get together in Physiopedia to show the world how we can contribute.
In September we will be creating opportunities in Physiopedia for people to contribute to the areas of cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer. Why don’t you join us? We will post more information here over the coming weeks on how you can get involved so keep checking back to find out how you can collaborate with Physiopedia to make your contribution to global health.
