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...health services, and their confidence in public spaces can be affected. Green Social Prescribing is specifically about supporting people to access activities in green and blue spaces – think nature and water. Depending on the type of activity, it has the potential to tackle many of the wider determinants in one go. For example, community gardens bring people together...

...health within Black and minority ethnic communities in Wales, the UK and beyond...Dr Jenny Douglas presents an overview of racial inequities in health from a historical and sociological perspective, focusing primarily on the UK, but making links to the US. The presentation will focus on the ways in which the pandemic merely reflected and amplified intersectional...

...Health in the workplace We have all seen how the pandemic has brought to light a greater need to focus on individual wellbeing. We have also been made aware of how stretched Mental Health Services are struggling to cope with ever-increasing demands on the service. Mental health problems are not new in the workplace and were all too common even before COVID-19 hit us....

...health system in India? One doctor found a low-tech approach works...High-tech hospitals are now commonplace in Indian cities. But they’re also expensive, putting them out of the reach of the poor. So one Indian doctor found an ultra low-tech approach to delivering health care: writing postcards. [Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah] Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah Over the...

...about what got her interested in mental health, psychology and the mind in this exclusive interview ...Transcript Did you know All in the Mind is co-produced by The Open University? Check out our All in the Mind page to find out more about the series and get additional FREE content on mental health and the mind. Interested in mental health or psychology? Try a FREE course...

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...health charities, are keen to press upon the curious that there’s rarely, if ever, a single factor that leads to any self-inflicted death and that mental illness, most commonly depression, usually precedes such an event. “But the really important point is, most people with depression don’t kill themselves,” O’Connor tells me. “Less than 5 per cent do. So...

...health. Trouble is, says Simon Leigh, there's no real evidence they can deliver...The unmet need for mental health services is reaching an unprecedented level thanks to rising demand and continually falling NHS resources. Monthly referrals to community mental health teams increased by 13% in 2013, and 16% in the case of crisis services. Yet more than 200 full-time NHS...