Today, entering the second decade of the 21st century,clinical patient education and health education have been greatly enhanced in physi-cal and occupational rehabilitation. Therapists use clinical teaching and learning regu-larly in their patientsâ examination, evaluation, plan of care, and interventions. Thegoal of rehabilitation providers is to help their patients learn about the disorder (disease)affecting them and actively participate in the planning of interventions.
The World Meteorological Organization defines this time period as 30 years. Examples of climate change include increases in global surface temperature (global warming), changes in rainfall patterns, and changes in the frequency of extreme weather events.
impacts of global warming. The resulting economic instability, they claim, could then lead to political instability, breed terrorism and conflict, and precipitate mass migration with adverse consequences for the economic wellâbeing and national security of the U.S. and, following the same chain of logic, presumably other industrialized countries as well (see, e.g., Freeman and Guzman 2009: 134â137).