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Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...health-care industry will be underestimated if all that is counted is patient throughput or treatment episodes, without accounting for the extent to which consumers enjoy better treatment. Quality improvements in health care include better diagnosis, new medical equipment and less invasive treatments. Another example is provided in a study cited by The Economist (2000)....
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...health insurance provider refuses to provide a drug to cancer patients on grounds of cost while neighbouring authorities provide it. While some of these examples may be quite common, fairness is an issue because people are being treated differently purely on the basis of their power in relation to an organisation or its managers, or where they live. Fairness or justice is...
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...health effects. Many millions of people around the world and a lot of them in China are dying from air pollution. So China has got a real imperative to try and take carbon out of its economic system. It’s also trying to rebalance its economy, so it’s been a very heavily polluting economy because it’s had a lot of heavy manufacturing and it’s trying to rebalance...
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...health sectors. These are sectors that are particularly important from the perspective of ensuring the security of the economy, as well as being sectors where the UK can be influential. There are many more that are important to the prosperity of the UK, including food and drink, clothing and textiles, and transport. In your own nation, there may be a slightly different...
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...mental thing from a word or figure? Or does it mean that pictures are like words and figures but that they operate in terms of a different language, one that may be more likely to be understood by people in many different cultures? (We should point out, however, that some anthropologists claim to have found non-western cultures where people appear not to recognise...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...health warnings, however. We are not about to advocate the picking over of people’s language in silly, microscopic ways – that would be a recipe for paralysis. Likewise, we recognise that some people are more fluent than others verbally. Some people may, for example, much prefer listening, thinking and then composing their thoughts, in order to re-enter conversations...
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...wellbeing of staff, who will struggle to maintain a healthy work–life balance. The board of directors should pay attention to the importance of delegation of authority and segregation of duties to ensure efficiency and reduce the risk of fraud, money laundering, abuse and error. The board should evaluate the performance of management to ensure that the risk of...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...health education, but in this programme the workers were explaining how batteries were expensive or unavailable and electricity supplies unreliable or simply non-existent. The programme provided Baylis with a problem, and inspired him to find an innovative solution. Baylis's invention, as you have probably guessed, was the clockwork radio, Figure 2. He wasn't the first...