This book serves as a guide for a broad audience at the crossroads of environmental adaptation and human health. Rehabilitation physicians and physical and occupational therapists will find it valuable for tailoring care for people with disabilities due to climate change.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Taxonomy: A Framework for Research and Policy Development
3. What to Expect Related to Climate Change and Specific Disabilities
4. Worldwide Concerns Related to Climate Change and Disability
5. Education
6. Advocacy
7. Action and Research
Authors
Marcalee Alexander President, Sustain Our Abilities, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, USA.Marcalee Alexander, MD is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, she is a Past-President of the American SCI Association. In 2019, to motivate rehabilitation professionals and persons with disabilities to take action regarding climate change, she began a walk from Canada to Key West to educate people about disasters, disability and climate change and the need for an accessible, health-promoting environment. In 2020, she paused the walk due to Covid19. Concomitantly, she founded the 501C3 Sustain Our Abilities, whose mission is to educate people about climate change, disability and health. Dr. Alexander also is founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Climate Change and Health and is organizing Climate and Health 2023, a hybrid international meeting. Her walk, now named the Graham-Green Route Aiding Health Adaptation will resume 2/24/24 and she has created a Healthy Living Space petition as part of this journey.
Alexandra E. Fogarty Private Practice, USA.Dr. Alexandra Fogarty is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician with speciality training in Sports Medicine and Pain Management. After graduating from Bowdoin College in Maine, she attended Saba University School of Medicine in the Netherlands and earned her MD degree. She completed Internship and Residency in PM&R at Washington University in Saint Louis where she served as Academic Chief Resident prior to completing Sports Medicine Fellowship Washington University and then serving as Pain a Medicine Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Fogarty has also served in several prominent leadership roles, including with the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society (IPSIS), where she serves as chair of the Sustainability Task Force, whose goal is to foster awareness of the relationship between human health and the environment.
Carl Froilan D. Leochico Brain Medicine; Neurorehabilitation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila St. Luke's Medical Center, Quezon City and Global City, Philippines Sustain Our Abilities.Dr. Leochico is a physiatrist from the Philippines and trained in Brain Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is sub-specializing in Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. His research interests include telerehabilitation and its manifold benefits, including environmental stewardship. He is among the pioneers of telerehabilitation in the Philippines. As Chair of the Telerehabilitation Committee of the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine, he led the development of their national telerehabilitation guidelines for physiatrists and other rehabilitation professionals. He is currently the Secretary of the Telerehabilitation Special Interest Group of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) and a member of the Toronto Telerehabilitation Working Group.
