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Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

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?
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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?
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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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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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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
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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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How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...publication, the content will be reviewed by the original academic to ensure there are no problems from an academic perspective - e.g. citing discredited research Before publication, the content will be reviewed by a member of the editorial team to ensure there are no compliance problems with the piece - e.g. copyright infringement Sometimes the material has been selected...
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...health and social care authorities, academic publications, Research Ethics Committees and research organisations provide a range of ethical guidance and resources. International codes such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpin ethical frameworks (United Nations, 1948). You may be aware of key legislation in your own country or the country where you plan to...
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