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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...Health Service (NHS) in 1948, arguably one of the greatest British achievements of the post-war years. The NHS was particularly lauded during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with weekly clapping for those who worked there. The National Health Service has always been an international health service. It has been built on the labour of migrant workers from around the...
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Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?

...public services, such as health and education, are means by which inequality can be reduced and deliver benefits to the whole of society. This is not to deny that government debt needs to be reduced, but there are two sides to a government budget: expenditure and taxation. There is a strong case for public expenditure when it is spent on goods and services that are in the...
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Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...public reaction to the shale gas industry is just an emotional response. Averil MacDonald, the chair of oil industry body United Kingdom Operators Group (UKOOG), recently claimed that women were less likely to support fracking than men because they followed their instinct rather than facts. This idea leads to the assumption that information cannot alter the emotive public...
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Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...public participation since. A member of staff responsible for the local Health Board’s application to an accreditation scheme called Investing in Volunteers began a presentation to the group by stating, ‘You might not know it, but the public involvement you are doing is volunteering.’ Afterwards, a member of the group exclaimed to me in furious tones ‘I am NOT a...
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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series we explore how important it is to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration throughout our lives, as well as regular physical and social activity in older age. Within the series we also explore how this knowledge might be used to facilitate self-management and delay the...
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Article 5 mins
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...publications/ 2019-03/ informed-health-and-care-a-digital-health-and-social-care-strategy-for-wales.pdf (Accessed 2 December 2020)...Innovation in health and social care practice: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Lucy Rai. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...public figures have spoken out about their experience with mental health. Watch below where writer and illustrator Matthew Johnstone worked with the World Health Organisation to talk about overcoming the "black dog of depression". Actor David Harewood spoke in the recent Open University and BBC collaborative documentary, Psychosis and Me, about his experience of diagnosis...
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Explore critical issues in health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Explore critical issues in health and wellbeing

...health and wellbeing from a critical perspective? If so we have two free courses that are right up your street...[This shows the feet and lower legs of a person about to go for a run.] We have two fantastic courses which explore key issues in health and wellbeing. The first focuses on issues in women's health, touching on areas such as abortion, periods, the menopause,...
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