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Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...public health and safety (recall the contribution of Amartya Sen in Activity 3). Many economists and other social scientists have argued that income inequality affects these aspects of economic success. Complete Activity 13 to learn how. Activity 13 Inequality and society Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Watch a presentation by Professor Richard Wilkinson about the social...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...health: Introduction - Week 3 considers communications and conversations about mental health. Public attitudes to mental health have recently become more positive resulting in social barriers being broken down and conversations about mental health becoming more normalised. This means that adult learners might be familiar with and expectant of discussions about mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...public health approach to knife crime in which the police worked with those in the health, education and social work sectors to address the problem. The results have been dramatic. In 2018, of the 35 children and teenagers who were killed in Britain, none were from Scotland. In the next activity you can see some of the ways this has been achieved, by adopting the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...Public Health Wales – who was involved in the creation of the toolkit, explains how using it can help with long-term planning and thinking about the future. LOUISA PETCHEY I'm Dr. Louisa Petchey. I'm a senior policy specialist at Public Health Wales, and part of my role involves working in partnership with the Future Generations Commissioner's Office, where we work...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...Public Health Wales) discuss how the Three Horizons approach was used to develop an approach to futures thinking. As you watch the video, think about some of the earlier sections of the course and reflect on how comfortable you feel about futures planning now. LOUISA PETCHEY: Our very first step was to try and, as the office puts it, walk the walk rather than just talk...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...public health) which they would, if they were more enlightened, themselves pursue, but do not, because they are blind or ignorant or corrupt. This renders it easy for me to conceive of myself as coercing others for their own sake, in their, not my, interest. I am then claiming that I know what they truly need better than they know it 40 themselves. What, at most, this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...public health...Influenza: A case study: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the glossary terms in the course describe influenza viruses, their structure, how they are transmitted, how they infect cells and replicate and how they produce their damage in the host...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell suffered from poor health throughout his life and was already seriously ill (with an incurable form of tuberculosis) when he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. The cultural and political impact of Nineteen Eighty-Four was immediate. It was published in June 1949 – against the backdrop of the beginning of the Cold War and amid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs