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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...Public Health England, 2016) These figures, however, are unsatisfactory for a number of reasons, not all of them immediately evident. For example, the figures are not collected regularly and there is no universal system for labelling adults. Also, the figures are not broken down into the four sub-categories you looked at in Section 2.1, meaning the data is quite vague....
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...public health at the University of Dar es Salaam. Myemba supervises Apopo’s team of outreach volunteers – people who track down patients identified thanks to the rats and make sure they take their medication. She translates as Claudi’s grandmother explains what happened. Claudi is eight now. He was six when he got sick. “He was not in a good condition,” his...
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...Public Health, found 515 people who had been stopped from jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971. Ninety-four per cent were living or had died of natural causes. The study, which Covington says was “ignored for 25 years”, suggested what several others have shown: simply by removing access to danger, and an easy outlet for “learned fearlessness”,...
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...health of children and their families, see the following resources and publications: Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Supporting young people’s mental health during periods of disruption Save the Children ‘Invisible Wounds’, reports on the impact on children of six years of war in Syria StreetInvest and the University of Dundee report on their...
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...health’. Currently (2020) Public Health England produces the Eatwell Guide to visually communicate government recommendations for a healthy diet. This is shown in Figure 1. A lack of an adequate supply of any nutrient is known as malnutrition and leads to poor health. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The Eatwell Guide: A guide to choosing a healthy diet. Activity 1 Does Figure 1...
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...Public health significance of mixed anxiety and depression: beyond current classification’, British Journal of Psychiatry, The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...public health (March 2019), Public Health England [Online] Available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-outdoor-air-quality-and-health-review-of-interventions (Accessed 28 January 2025). Rosenfeld, D. et al. (2019) ‘Comparison of advanced fuels: Which technology can win from the life cycle perspective?’ Journal of Cleaner ......
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...public mental health services (Department of Health 2014b). The following key points were highlighted in the report: 70 million working days were lost to mental illness at a cost of £70-100 billion to the UK economy in the previous year. People with a chronic physical condition (such as a heart condition) have a 2.6 fold increase in the odds of having a mental illness....
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs