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...Care at The Open University...A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing discipline that focuses on the use of food and supplements to provide these essential nutrients as part of an integrated or...

...Care courses. There are currently around 7,000 people on the UK transplant waiting lists and over 420 people died waiting for a transplant last year (2021). The Organ donation law in parts of the UK has recently changed to an ‘opt out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of people urgently...

...care....Accessibility and inclusion in digital health: Introduction - In this free course, Accessibility and inclusion in digital health, you will consider some of the ways that people can access digital health in the UK and how they are able to take more control over their physical and mental health. However, for a number of reasons not everyone has access to digital...

...adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from the food allergy community what they would like businesses to do to create more inclusive and safer dining experiences. [Icon of hands shaking together and the text 'Food for Everyone', advocating for allergy-inclusive discussions.] My name is Claire McGuigan and...

...care and reproductive services to reduce maternal mortality; Target 3.2: End of preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age; Target 3.4: Screening and care for non-communicable diseases; Target 3.8: Universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services; and, Target 3.D: Strengthen the capacity of all...