Educator perspectives on integrating climate change and environmental sustainability into occupational therapy education.
Background: Climate change has been identified as the biggest threat to global public health. 1 Despite the clear connection between negative health outcomes and anthropogenic climate change, there are few guidelines for curricular inclusion within healthcare education, including occupational therap...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 638 - 652 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2025
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