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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...public health in Africa, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 76–77 [Online]. Available at www.publichealthinafrica.org/index.php/jphia/article/view/jphia.2013.e17 (Accessed 3 March 2016). Stowe, M., Haefner, J. and Behling, R. (2010) ‘Required knowledge, skills and abilities from the healthcare clinical managers’ perspectives’, Academy of Health Care Management Journal, vol. 6,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...Public Health West Midlands logo] Interested in taking your learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s Early Years courses and qualifications....Introduction: Introduction - Welcome to Supporting physical development in early childhood. In this course, you will learn the importance of encouraging children to take part in physical...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...Public Health Nutrition has shown that watching food brand video content on YouTube and seeing favourite food brands advertised online is linked to consuming more unhealthy foods and drinks in young people aged 10 to 16 years. In the short article Ads of our time Mimi Tatlow-Golden discusses what psychology can tell us about teens’ susceptibility to food ads in digital...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...public health problems associated with such over-crowding forced the Corporation to take on more and more municipal powers fired by a Presbyterian zeal that cleanliness was indeed next to Godliness. This phenomenon came to be known as municipal socialism although there was not much that was socialist about it. The historian T.C. Smout sums this up wittily. MICHAEL...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...public health. At The Open University, students focus on a specific strand of criminology often referred to as ‘critical criminology’. This strand of criminology became increasingly popular in the mid 1960s, as a number of seminal criminologists shifted their attention away from the search for the causes of crime, and towards a more critical consideration of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...public health and education. His experience of the appalling conditions endured by factory workers also led him to consider how environment impacts on behaviour. Greg Claeys He gives a number of papers. One of which in 1797 crucially focuses upon the moral virtue of the population. He wants to know what has particular impact upon peoples self conception of their moral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...public health individually. Migration is a massive process where we have the movement of people. So we have a number of ways. We have the movement of goods, of people, across countries which really are fundamental to shaping both prosperity, but also inequality and poverty today. BEN LAMPERT OK, thanks, Rory. And the other thing I really picked up from the paper, that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...public health...Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment: 7.3 Faecal streptococci - The faecal streptococci group of bacteria consists of the species Streptococcus faecalis (Figure 9), S. faecium, S. durans, S. equinus and S. bovis. The bacteria are approximately 1 µm in diameter and occur in chains of varying length. They die fairly quickly outside their host,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs