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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...et al., 2009) In essence, Table 2 demonstrates the distinctive breadth of the concept of global health, with respect to its geographical reach (transcends national boundaries), the extent of the cooperation required between different countries (global), its objectives (prevention in populations, clinical care of individuals, health equity for all) and its disciplinary...
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...institutions (such as government departments) have very rigid ways of working and don’t often ‘speak to each other’. In addition, there is still a tendency to see health as only the concern of the health and social care sector, when, as we have seen, it is ‘everybody’s business’. Given the current and emerging public health challenges, public health requires...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...politique of the Brussels Eurocrats. His answer to where Europe is remains quite vague, although it is quite clearly not just restricted to ‘the west’. These are questions that we shall now go on to examine in more detail...What is Europe?: Preamble - It is important to distinguish between the different dimensions of European identity, and we shall begin by...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...et al. (2021) found the literature on self-awareness ‘characterized by multiple definitions’, rarely recognising ‘the complexity of the construct’, and frequently confusing self-awareness with concepts such as self-consciousness and self-knowledge. Following detailed analysis, they offer the following definition: Self-awareness consists of a range of components,...
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...et al. 2014). These symptoms are temporary, but require a period of recovery to repair. If an individual moves into their next training session without being fully recovered from the previous one, their ability to perform at their best will be inhibited. Therefore, any strategy aimed at increasing the speed of recovery is potentially advantageous. As well as being...
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...et al., 2002). In 1981, Carol Martin and Charles Halverson presented a new account of gender typing that drew on the ideas of earlier cognitive developmental accounts but included considerably more detail about the exact cognitive processes involved in gender development (Martin and Halverson, 1981). They proposed that the emergence of stereotypes in childhood was not...
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...et al., 2012) As illustrated by both social workers in the videos, making the link between personal experience and what social workers bring to their practice is an important early step towards their becoming a reflective practitioner. Good social work practice is primarily about relationships (Wilson et al., 2011) and engaging effectively with service users, carers and...
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...et al., 2021). These are all areas you should think about before you start your new role. In the following videos you will hear from Ploy and Zainab at iungo Solutions again, this time discussing important considerations around behaviour, culture, support and workspaces in remote or hybrid-first organisations. PORNNARAI NILDUANG: Hi, my name's Ploy. I work for iungo...