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Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...health. Finally, there is an informal blindness system which consists of services provided by no established agencies, but by families, friends and neighbours. Adapted from Schon (1971) The passage in Box 2 illustrates a number of points of considerable importance. First, the system described is not solely comprised of tangible elements – departments, people, workshops,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...health services in the UK are different from the institutions that contribute to the reduction of poverty in the Indian sub-continent, which in turn are different from the institutions designed to create liberal capitalism in eastern Europe, or those set up to address problems related to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and so on. It is worth noting, though, that such is the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 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...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...health at work, providing social protection for workers, and fighting discrimination in the workplace. The ILO has adopted several conventions (all open for signature and ratification by state parties) addressing forced and exploitative labour: International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention 1930 (No 29) Defined forced labour as ‘all work or service which is...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...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 increasing anti-communist hysteria on both sides of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs