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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...centred care. This article looks at the impact of older people’s health inequalities on families, communities and society more widely. We will also consider what action we can all take to try and reduce health inequalities. [Elderly hands] While estimates vary, it is largely accepted that access to and quality of healthcare services only accounts for around 20% of a...
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Article 5 mins
Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
History & The Arts

Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast

...centred on the city’s Maritime Hotel and an annual arts festival attracting the likes of Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Ravi Shankar. When The Troubles broke out at the end of the decade, this vibrant musical ecosystem started to suffer. Although bands continued to perform, many international artists became reluctant to play in Belfast and no longer included the city...
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Article 5 mins
The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill
History & The Arts

The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill

...at Devizes © Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Treadmill at HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, Hampshire © Crown copyright NMR ref: bb90/14698 Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open University in Wales] Open Talks is a video series where Open University academics share their expertise and passion on a subject or issue of their choice. Watch more from Open Talks...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...centre. Thames Water Utility Caymans thus protects investors from having to pay tax on either interest payments or on any gains made when selling the bonds. The organisation of wholesale securitisation and indeed subsequent financing involves an array of intermediaries from financial advisors and legal specialists to rating agencies, each involved in their various...
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Article 10 mins
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...centre of Glasgow, to stop the first ever Warrant Sale of goods due to debt accrued by someone for non-payment of their Poll Tax. Some of those there were arrested. [Anti poll tax demonstration in Glasgow]Anti-Poll Tax march against the Government's community charge Source: Glasgow LiveMy mother and some other activists had prepared for this eventuality by wearing...
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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...centre of a galaxy. This section introduces some key ideas about orbital motion. People sometimes wonder what keeps the Moon in orbit and stops it crashing to the Earth. This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. If you lift an object above the Earth's surface and let it go, it falls to the ground, pulled down by the force of gravity. Why doesn't this happen to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...centred’ and challenge traditional economic value assumptions...Understanding organisational value: 1 Understanding organisational value - Creating value is an important part of any and all organisations. You will learn the definition of organisational value and its relationship to organisational values, as you study this course. You will start by examining your...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...children. He wrote me a letter the Christmas after the surgery, and he said 'My father sent me two presents this year. First, a motorised CD rack from the Sharper Image that I didn't really need, but I knew he was giving it to me to celebrate the fact that I'm living on my own and have a job I seem to love. And the other present was a photo of my grandmother, who...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs