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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...public-health concerns and the impact of changes in NHS policy and practice on the delivery of health care. Health is increasingly ‘everybody’s business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study....
Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...public health, 140(5), pp. 286–93. Drinkwater, C. (2025) ‘Foreword’ in H. Henry, Social prescribing: paradigms, perspectives and practice. Routledge, pp. vii–ix. Fancourt, D. (2017) Arts in health: designing and researching interventions. Oxford University Press. Hole, J., Hirsch, M., Ball, E. and Meads, C. (2015) ‘Music as an aid for postoperative recovery in...
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...public health and individual choice is the result of new ideas that emerged during the Enlightenment. During the 18th century, states across Europe began to rethink the bases of national wealth and strength. At the heart of these new ideas was a new appreciation of what we would now call public health. Whereas in earlier centuries rulers wished to prevent famines that...
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...health, public health and social work. Each have a different policy and practice focus. Will your eventual investigation have a policy or practice focus?...Why use literature reviews in health and social care?: 3 How literature reviews can shape policy and practice - Case study: Jean Gordon (Effective social work with older people) I qualified as a social worker in my...
Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question

...public health measures to the development of autism. The most reported, and controversial, link was between the MMR vaccine and development of autism. In 1998, a research paper was published that suggested that the “triple” vaccine against MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) can cause autism in some children. This has been discredited and widely disproved in medical...
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series we explore how important it is to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration throughout our lives, as well as regular physical and social activity in older age. Within the series we also explore how this knowledge might be used to facilitate self-management and delay the...
When the skeletons won’t go home: what the law says after Halloween
Society, Politics & Law

When the skeletons won’t go home: what the law says after Halloween

...Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and requires that, where no other suitable arrangements are available, the local authority where the body is located ensures that it is buried or cremated. Therefore, once the skeleton or dead body is evicted from your property, your legal duty could end with you contacting the local authority and notifying them that the...
Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...public health and safety alongside environmental compliance. It includes acquiring planning permission and an environmental permit linked to a proposed landfill restoration plan. At the landfill restoration phase, operators place an even layer of material on top of the landfill to create a soil profile, but there is no specific guidance on restoring biodiversity. The...