One of the biggest growth areas for physiotherapists in the coming years years will be the management of chronic illness. The numbers of people now living with conditions that were once relatively rare is quite staggering, and they are becoming more complex. A report released last week by the Australian Health Policy Collaboration (link) has once again highlighted the need for us to take a society-wide approach to managing the threats posed by conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer and respiratory illnesses, through a concerted effort to tackle the 'upstream' causes: alcohol consumption, sedentary behaviour, high salt intake, smoking, etc. Obesity, diabetes, hypertension and … [Read more...] about Do you need a four-year degree to tell someone to stop smoking and do more exercise?
On openings and closings, choice and change
From Brian Massumi, via Mary Zournazi, via Prof Liz Smythe Zournazi, M. (2002). Hope. New philosophies for change. Annandale, NSW, Austalia: Pluto Press. … [Read more...] about On openings and closings, choice and change
member eBulletin 2015(11)
Published 30 November 2015 Welcome to the member e-Bulletin ... your digest of content posted to the site during the last month. Thanks to members who posted feedback on October's edition of the eBulletin (copy available here). Your feedback supported the idea of producing a member eBulletin in principle - published on either a fortnighly or a monthly basis. You asked me to review presentation/format of content & offered some great ideas about the sorts of things you'd like to see in the eBulletin. I hope that you'll see some of those ideas starting to appear through the eBulletin over the coming months. What's new Since launching the registration form towards the end of … [Read more...] about member eBulletin 2015(11)