1. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE SUSTAINABLE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTICE Ben Whittaker (Occupational Therapy Programme Lead)

5. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE “We behave as we believe that other people, specific social or cultural groups or society as a whole expect us to behave” (Hagedorn 2004, p12)

6. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE Incorporate each individual’s interdependency with the global ecosystem Addressing global wellbeing through sustainable development can improve individual, community and social wellbeing (Whittaker 2012)

7. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE OCCUPATIONAL JUSTICE “the human need for, and right to be engaged in, meaningful, satisfying and ecologically sustainable occupations” (COT 2002, p36) OCCUPATIONAL ECOLOGY “awareness of the ecological genocide we are confronting, along with proactive measures, through human occupation, to restore balance with the natural environment” (Simó Algado and Cardona 2005, p346)

8. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL WELLBEING Implications: 1.Reframe current occupational therapy interventions 2.Promote leadership on sustainable practice 3.Develop new community opportunities

9. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (CMOP-E) (Polatajko, Townsend & Craik, 2007)

13. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE PROMOTE LEADERSHIP ON SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE Principles of Sustainable Clinical Practice 1.Preventative healthcare 2.Patient empowerment and self-care 3.Lean and efficient service delivery 4.Lower carbon treatment options (Mortimer 2010)

14. www.sap.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk

15. value = outcomes costs economic social environmental

16. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE DEVELOP NEW COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES OT process could enable people outside the health service to live more sustainably Widespread inertia around change Hope Empowerment Engagement in meaningful activity

17. Green Lifestyle Redesign® Camille Dieterle OTD, OTR/L A Wellness Program for Environmental Sustainability

18. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE “Health is a collective value. One person’s health should not, and ultimately cannot, be maintained at the expense of another’s, nor through the excessive use of natural resources” (Stott 2000, p14)

19. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE Joel Pett/Lexington Herald-Leader. Reprinted with permission.

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24. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE REFERENCES Carlisle S, Henderson G and Hanlon PW (2009) 'Wellbeing': a collateral casualty of modernity? Social Science and Medicine, 69(10), 1556-1560. College of Occupational Therapists (2002) From Interface to Integration: A Strategy for Modernising Occupational Therapy Services in Local Health and Social Care Committees – A Consultation. London: COT College of Occupational Therapists (2013) Essential Briefing: Sustainable Development. London: COT Dieterle C (2013) Creating a Sustainable Lifestyle. Available at: www.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/occupational-therapy- sustainable-practice-network-ot-susnet/blog/2013/02/creating- sustainable-lifest Accessed on: 04.03.2013 Hagedorn R (2004) Foundations for Practice in Occupational Therapy (Third Edition). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Lawson-Porter A (2009) The Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2009: Rethink, reimagine and refocus. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 72(7), 286-293

25. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE REFERENCES Mortimer F (2010) The sustainable physician. Clinical Medicine, 10(2), 110-111 Mortimer F (2013) Transforming models of care: Sustainable clinical practice. CleanMed Europe, Oxford, 18.09.2013. Available at: http://cleanmedeurope.org/speakers/plenary-speakers-slides Accessed on: 12.03.2014 Pett J (2010) “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world…?” editorial cartoon. USA Today, 07.12.2009, A.8 Polatajko HJ, Townsend EA & Craik J (2007) Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (CMOP-E). In: Townsend EA & Polatajko HJ (2007) Enabling Occupation II: Advancing an Occupational Therapy Vision for Health, Well-being & Justice through Occupation. Ottawa, ON: CAOT ACE Simó Algado S and Cardona CE (2005) The return of the corn men: an intervention project with a Mayan community of Guatemalan retornos. In: F Kronenberg, S Simó Algado, N Pollard (Eds) Occupational Therapy Without Borders: Learning from the Spirit of Survivors. Edinburgh: Elsevier, 336-50

26. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE REFERENCES Stott R (2000) The Ecology of Health. Dartington: Green Books. Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists (2012) Occupational therapy and sustainable development – from a Swedish perspective. Nacka, Sweden: SAOT. UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) The UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis of the Key Findings. UNEP- WCMC, Cambridge Watts (2009) The Health Benefits of Tackling Climate Change: An Executive Summary for The Lancet Series. Available at: http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/series/health-and- climate-change.pdf Accessed on: 01.12.2009 Whittaker B (2012) Sustainable global wellbeing: a proposed expansion of the occupational therapy paradigm. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 75(9), 436-439. World Federation of Occupational Therapists (2012) Position Statement: Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Practice within Occupational Therapy. Forrestfield: WFOT.

27. CENTRE for SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE WEBSITES www.carbonaddict.org www.climateandhealth.org www.climateandhealthalliance.org www.theclimateconnection.org www.nhsforest.org www.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/ot-susnet www.sap.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk www.sd-commission.org.uk www.sduhealth.org.uk www.sustainabilityforhealth.org

28. ben.whittaker@sustainablehealthcare.org.uk