Atualização Informativo WCPT fevereiro 2019

WCPT E-Update - February 2019

WCPT Board member appointed as Zambian ambassador Esther Munalula Nkandu, WCPT Treasurer and Chair of WCPT's Finance Committee, has been appointed by the President of Zambia as the country’s ambassador to Belgium. A former President of the Zambia Society of Physiotherapy and a former Chair of the WCPT Africa Region, Esther has been involved with WCPT and the global physical therapy profession for 15 years. She headed the University of Zambia’s Department of Physiotherapy between 2000 and 2013 and, as a bioethicist, served on Zambia’s National Health Research Ethics Committee. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/2tKelpr

Congress final programme now available The congress iPlanner is now live. Incorporating all focused symposia, discussion sessions, networking sessions, seminars and platform presentations, it's time to start building your personal itinerary for congress. Advance registration: The deadline for advance registration is less than one month away.  Save up to 10% on your registration and register before 26th March. Registration is only available onsite after this date.

WCPT President Podcast Earlier this month WCPT President Emma K Stokes spoke to Krysta Wark on the Canadian Physiotherapy Association’s Global Physio Podcast. Highlighting the role of WCPT as the global body for the profession, the podcast also covers the importance of professional associations, global policy change, young physiotherapists as leaders and where Emma sees physiotherapy in the future. https://apple.co/2SNDcb9 #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth Find out which article Emma K Stokes chose for PEDro's #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth. Taken from the Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2018/09/give-yourself-a-break-the-power-of-self-compassion), the article looks at the power of self compassion in the face of regrets or setbacks. Emma also chose an article exploring how taking a self-compassion mindset when considering regret experiences can lead to more personal growth. Zhang JW, Chen S. Self-compassion promotes personal improvement from regret experiences via acceptance. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 2016;42(2):244-58 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215623271)

Black History Month For this year's Black History Month, WCPT member organisation, the American Physical Therapy Association, dug into its archive to take a look at some truly ground-breaking African American physical therapists who achieved greatness despite obstacles, transforming the profession along the way. Read the article: Vision, Courage, Compassion: Black Physical Therapists Who Transformed the Profession www.apta.org/Blogs/PTTransforms/2019/2/BHM/

World Tuberculosis Day The World Health Organization will commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on 24th March to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer. Each day, nearly 4,500 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 54 million lives since the year 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 42%. To accelerate the TB response in countries to reach targets, Heads of State came together and made strong commitments to end TB at the first-ever UN High Level Meeting in September 2018. Download resources and find out more about this year's theme, ‘It’s time’: www.who.int/campaigns/world-tb-day/world-tb-day-2019

Cochrane Rehabilitation Newsletter - latest issue published The 17th issue of the Cochrane Rehabilitation Newsletter has recently been published: Cochrane Rehabilitation NL Issue 17| February 2019 The newsletter contains several articles including Should post-surgical cancer patients exercise? and Is chest physiotherapy effective in children with pneumonia? https://rehabilitation.cochrane.org/

Pesquisas revelam estado global da profissão fisioterapêutica

As respostas à última pesquisa da Confederação Mundial de Fisioterapia (WCPT) revelam que o acesso direto ao Fisioterapeuta está disponível em 48 países e não há restrições à prática privada em 77 países.

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Surveys reveal global state of the physical therapy profession

Responses to the latest World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) survey reveal direct access is available in 48 countries and there is no restriction on private practice in 77 countries.
For a number of years WCPT has published data from its member organisations on a range of issues, including professional regulation, practice, education, and the number of employed physical therapists. This data provides a comprehensive and valuable global profile of the profession.
The most recent data is based on surveys completed by 89 WCPT member organisations in mid-2018. The data gives a global snapshot of the physical therapy profession across the world, showing variations in the density of physical therapists in different countries and between WCPT regions.
Highlights of the 2018 data include:

• 54% of respondents said there was direct access in their country and people could refer themselves to a physical therapist without a referral
• 86% of respondents said there was no law preventing private practice in their country
• globally, 60% of physical therapists are women, however this varied from countries where it was as high as 80% (17 respondents) to as low as 40% (four respondents).

WCPT Chief Executive Jonathon Kruger said: ‘The responses to the surveys from our member organisations continue to provide rich and valuable international comparisons which WCPT and its members can use to influence policy decisions around health, health service delivery, human resource planning, and education.’

The country profile maps allow people to see how the global profession has evolved since 2013. The maps are an interactive resource that can be printed or downloaded, and can be accessed here.

Feedback from WCPT member organisations has been overwhelmingly positive:

‘The infographic presentation of the global survey allows us to clearly understand our current status compared to other WCPT member organisations in the region and the whole world. It is a very useful reference for us to decide the next steps of professional development as well as to advocate our needs to the government. It is our honour, as a member organisation, to be a significant and integral part of WCPT.’
Taiwan Physical Therapy Association

Related links

• WCPT’s member organisations
•  Profiling the profession: WCPT’s data collection

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