The Search For Justice; Sharing Findings from a National Consensus Development Conference and Looking Beyond

Justice and health equity are necessary to ensure the health and wellness of an optimally operating society.  Healthcare leaders, educators, students and clinicians should endeavor to achieve health justice; however, there is a paucity of literature exploring health justice and similarly, a lack of accepted models or frameworks to actualize this state. There is a need to understand the tenets of health justice that can be integrated across and within the physiotherapy profession. 

This presentation will highlight the findings from a National project which aimed to build upon a proposed operational definition of health justice through a consensus exercise and identify concepts related to health justice that can inform the development of curricular content, policies, procedures, and practices by end-users in physiotherapy and other healthcare disciplines. This presentation will highlight the proposed and current steps in centring health justice in physiotherapy practice and education.