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...adults being overweight or obese (predominantly focusing on obesity), including a person’s lifestyle. When Level/Year 2 Open University students from the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care were asked to consider this question, more than two-thirds selected ‘Yes – a little (being overweight is somewhat to do with a person’s lifestyle)’. The results were...

...care, where bullying exists we generally don’t challenge it. Common survival strategies include withdrawing from colleagues or striking up alliances with people who offer us protection. This can include establishing gang-like ways of working, such as blaming and excluding people with different views or ways of working. Gangs, unlike functioning teams, offer a mafia-like...

...care in a range of health services from mental health, diabetes, hypertension and inherited haemoglobinopathies (sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia). Common themes emerged from the various reports: Black people are not listened to Black people are not believed Black people are not respected. This results in racial inequalities that are observed and in the higher death...

...Care qualification. These have been collated into a book – Narratives of COVID: loss, dying, death and grief during COVID-19 with over 30 authors from the OU contributing. The book includes essays, poems, and reflections to document a powerful reflection of the impact of COVID on individuals and wider society. This film shares three of the narratives as spoken by the...

...The second looks at lifestyles in relation to health. For instance, in high-income countries many lifestyles are physically inactive, and this can have a negative impact on a person's health. The two free courses are adapted from the Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing. This course is part of the OU's BA (Hons) Health and social care....