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World AIDS Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

World AIDS Day

...health officials and members of the public around the world take part in events that promote awareness and understanding of the pandemic. To support this, we have produced a variety of articles and an interactive that you can access to learn more about HIV and AIDS and other important issues in health. Find links to several of them below, as well as to the World AIDS Day...
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Article 5 mins
Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. So, why all the fuss about revising a manual for psychiatric diagnosis?...[Seated young man hiding his head between his legs] Sadness May 2013 sees the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This publication, produced...
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Pharmacotherapy while ageing
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Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...health and wellbeing. You might be interested in short – public facing articles listed below and OU & Parks Trust YouTube Channel. Resources Vseteckova J (2020) Ageing Well Public Talk Series https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/health/the-ageing-well-public-talks Vseteckova J (2020) How to age well, while self-isolating...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...Health and social care professionals must make sure that they are able to justify their actions and decisions, work for the best interests of their service users and work within the confines of their employer policy. This is part of being ‘responsible’ and ‘accountable’ for actions and decisions. It is therefore important to be mindful of your digital footprint,...
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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...Health Service) logo at the Springfields Medical Centre in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire.] In a recent radio broadcast Kevin Fong explored how helicopter emergency medical services became the most dangerous occupation in American. Cost, training and safety were implicated in a surge in the number of incidents, but an additional potential cause was regulation: or...
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Article 10 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...publications/mental-health-work-business-costs-ten-years/ (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Dattani, S. Rodés-Guirao, Ritchie, H. and Roser, M. (2018) Mental Health. Available at: https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health (Accessed: 4 January 2024). Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care (2017) Thriving at work: a review of mental ......
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Article 5 mins
Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author
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Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author

...public figure known through his readings and speeches. He cultivated, and relished, a close relationship with the vast audiences who came to hear him, in towns and cities throughout Britain, and in the USA. His readings appealed to his own deep instinct in support of the development of the imagination of the people, and also acknowledged the common Victorian pastime of...
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Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...public, regulators, professionals, employers, lawyers and the public. Its aim was to find out about public experiences of the Fitness to Practise process and what regulators can do to improve it. As part of the project, the OpenLearn course Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses' experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings was produced. And as part of this...
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Article 5 mins