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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses We know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call multimorbidity, and using multiple medications, which we call polypharmacy. This combination of ageing, multimorbidity and polypharmacy inevitably comes with some risks – these are explored in a previous...
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...openness means little in a world where trade is underpinned by the mutual recognition of standards which are constantly and collectively updated, interpreted and litigated. Even if EU laws are copied into British law via the ‘great repeal bill’, that means little without the cooperation mechanisms which make them operative. You may say that your pharmaceutical product...
Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...open to wide interpretation and inconsistent definitions. It is argued that at its most effective co-production leads to transformation. (Needham and Carr 2009). It is important to define co-production clearly otherwise there is a risk that its meaning is weakened and its potential to transform services is reduced. The co-production collective proposes it is, ‘An...
Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...open up about their loss and to support one another. What if you are worried about a man in your life? Let them know you are there to listen and not judge. Keep in touch: a text or a phone call can make all the difference. Find out about community or local services that support men. Reassure them it is okay for them to get help. Look after yourself too: supporting someone...
Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...Open University (23 April 1969), the spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released. The film grossed over $25million at the box office in North America alone. The relevance of this, well it’s all in the title - 50 years of sports technology has thankfully provided us with a lot of ‘Good’, sorted out some of the ‘Bad’ and, unfortunately,...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...Open University course DD102 Introducing the social sciences...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: compare and contrast two different approaches to studying juvenile delinquency understand psychological approaches to studying juvenile delinquency such as Eysenck’s personality theory...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...Open University has worked with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to develop bilingual units, including this one, on OpenLearn Cymru: www.colegcymraeg.ac.uk Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources: Images banner image – health.jpg: Colegcymraeg course image – iechyd.jpg: Colegcymraeg Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...openness to ideas, immigration, and other cultures which distinguished the early history of the USA, and which enabled it to participate in the creation of both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Its predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, evangelical, older, male voter base can no longer be relied on to secure a majority, even with the loyal support of big business...