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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...work was first released in 2015 and relaunched in 2021 for another five years. It outlines six ambitions, illustrated in the image, to improve the care of dying people. [Six ambitions to bring the vision of the framework about. Each ambition is represented by a different colour arrow. ] The framework is not mandated health policy. Instead, it serves as guidance for local...
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...work of OU historians. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure there was a single turning point or experience that got me interested in history. I enjoyed history at school, but what really kept me interested in the subject was the process of...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the...
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...work hard at refining their specialist subject knowledge. Can ‘anyone’ really teach geography? I don't think so! Follow up your thinking on these issues by doing the tasks in Activity 1. Activity 1 Click 'view document' to read David Lambert on Mapping geography. View document You can re-read Jessica's story by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Click on...
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...social action and of how people construct their own representations of particular places. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Who belongs to Glasgow?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of ideas about place and identity using our concept of ‘geographical imagination’ by...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...social media, children being concerned about global warming or young people worrying about their family’s ability to pay for their household’s necessities, such as food. Before looking at some data, you will consider your own thoughts about whether the UK is facing a child and adolescent mental health crisis. Activity 1 Are we facing a crisis? Timing: Allow about 20...
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...work is not crime-related (Boulton, L. et al., 2017) so when we look at decisions such as numbers of police needed we are missing most of the workload. Thirdly, it does not usually tell us when or where officers are needed. The next section looks at an alternative way of understanding patterns in crime...Capacity and demand management: 2 Crime pattern theory -...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...work, while private hospitals in some parts of the world have decided to close or work in a limited way during the pandemic. Finally, reports have suggested that some women might also be reluctant to deliver in hospital due to the fear of contracting COVID-19. While data needs to be collected to understand the scale of COVID-19’s impact, early evidence from India...