WORKSHOP / How are physiotherapists going to be the primary gatekeepers concerning health in the 21th century?
Elizabeth Dean, DipPT, BA, MS, PhD
Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Purpose:
To enable practitioners to be knowledgeable with respect to epidemiological trends in Scandinavia related to health and mortability, implications for evidence-based practice and the translation of related knowledge/evidence to improve their client/patient outcomes; and to practice at the highest level possible coomensurate with 21st century needs.
Intended audience:
ALL physiotherapists practicing in the 21st century irrespective of clinical area, and students intending to practice at maximal capacity this century.
Content and skills to be learned:
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Contemporary definition of physical therapy and the need to change our collective mindset – the need to bridge the gap between what we are eminently well qualified to do, and societal need
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Definition of health
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Major findings of World Health Organization health report
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Executive summaries of The First Physical Therapy Summit on Global Health (WCPT 2007) and The Second Physical Therapy Summit on Global Health (WCPT 2011) with special attention to morbidity and mortality, and societal and economic burdens
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Physical therapists as a ‘significant’ part of the solution to health care priorities
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Risk factor assessment: how to do it and how risk factor assessment data can be used as outcome measures (self assessment and clinical cases)
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Practice implications and strategies for improving physical therapy outcomes
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Proven strategies for health behavior change; Prochaska’s Model its validity and utility
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Professional marketing strategies to improve the public and political awareness as a solution to Scandinavian leading health care priorities
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Leadership strategies needed to be a primary gatekeeper in health care in the 21st century
Elizabeth Dean holder også et plenumforedrag på fagfestival 2012:
The Global Crisis of Lifestyle-related Conditions and the Role of Physiotherapist
About Elizabeth Dean:
Professor Elizabeth Dean is on faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Iceland. Her academic and clinical career and experiences have spanned 30 countries. Because ‘lifestyle conditions’ are pandemic not only in high-income countries, her research and publications have increasingly focused on integrating and translating knowledge of cultural relativism and diversity in promoting health and wellness worldwide.
She is especially interested in exploiting evidence-based non invasive physical therapy interventions (healthy lifestyles including health education and exercise) to prevent, in some cases reverse, as well as manage these conditions that are associated with enormous human suffering and societal cost. Along with an international team, Dr. Dean convened two physical therapy summits on global health at the World Confederation of Physical Therapy Congress 2007 and 2011.
She is co-editor (with Donna Frownfelter) and co-author of ‘Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence to Practice (5th edition), Elsevier:PA, 2012). She served as Special Issue editor for ‘Physical Therapy in the 21st Century: a New Evidence-informed Practice Paradigm and Implications’ (Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2009).
Her work through private practice and the UBC Post Polio Clinic has taken her to Pakistan on an Asia Pacific University Scholar’s Award. She practiced for over a year as Senior of the Cardiovascular/ Cardiorespiratory Team with the Kuwait Dalhousie Project in Kuwait, and spent a year as a resident Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Redigeret af : Susan Kranker, 25.01.2012
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