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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...health policy and planning, public health, education and improvement of slkills – specifically in mental health professionals – and the development of evidence base in several areas of health and social care. You can find out more about Jitka’s teaching and research on Jitka’s OU Profile. LEGAL & GENERAL [The Legal&General logo.] Legal & General Retail have worked...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...Public Health Agency South Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust Tesco (Belfast and Lisburn Women’s Aid, 2014) Read through the list and for each funder note whether they are public, private or voluntary sector. Which funder is most prominent? If you do not recognise the names of the organisations, you could quickly...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...health of the public sector accounts. If the accounts were in surplus, the new tax receipts would add to that surplus; if the accounts were in deficit, the new tax receipts would be used to pay off the country’s debt. Out of the £150 million tax receipts, £18 million would be used to cover debt interest payments, but a clean £132 million would be added to government...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...public health and safety. (Adapted from The Open University, 2012, pp. 17–24) The next section looks at how to apply STEEP to the business of football...Week 1: Football: a business like no other: 2.1 Using STEEP to analyse a football business - In the next activity you’ll start using the STEEP model to examine an element of the football business in more detail. [A...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...public-health-textbook/ health-information/ 3a-populations/ population-growth (Accessed 19 October 2017) Khawaja, B., Martinez, E. and Van Esveld, B. (2017) World Report 2017 – The Lost Years: Secondary Education for Children in Emergencies [Online]. Available at https://www.hrw.org/ world-report/ 2017/ country-chapters/ global-0 (Accessed 5 September 2017). Migration...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...Health Organisation (2014) and the Autism Speaks ‘Global Autism Public Health’ (GAPH) initiative (2008). To illustrate why such global initiatives are necessary, we will look briefly at autism in Ethiopia, and at a collaborative research and training initiative involving an Open University (OU) team including Ilona Roth, lead author of this course...Week 8: Reflecting...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...Public Health, 18(12). Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC8296384/ (Accessed: 31 August 2022). Mullan, K. (2010) ‘Families that read: A time-diary analysis of young people’s and parents’ reading’, Journal of Research in Reading, 33(4), pp. 414–430. Available at: https://doi.org/ 10.1111/ j.1467-9817.2010.01438.x (Accessed: 5 July...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...public health disaster and force the population to remain stable. Or perhaps the population will begin to decrease after it stabilises, continuing the trend of decreasing birth rates until it drops below the death rate. With more people dying than being born, there would be a negative growth rate. This results in a constructive population pyramid where there are fewer...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs