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Early childhood health promotion
Education & Development

Early childhood health promotion

...Care (ECEC) Practitioners. The Toolkit includes a 5 Step Programme as a model to guide practitioners in identifying and implementing a health promotion activity. The research foregrounds the valuable role that ECEC can contribute to promoting the health of babies and young children. Health can be improved and promoted through implementation of many of the aims of the...
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Video 45 mins
Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity affects the delicate energy balance in an ecosystem with often adverse consequences Managing or meddling? How ecosystems need careful understanding if we are to sustain them for the future whilst using them to our economic advantage...
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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...caring way towards them. Research repeatedly shows that social support is the single most important factor that protects people from the after effects of trauma. And this social support can be provided by anyone – a partner, family, friends, colleagues or members of the community. Essentially, any caring person can provide a basic level of emotional support. The best...
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Article 5 mins
Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...care in the digital age?...[Baby selfie] On average, Britons spend 1 hour and 20 minutes each day on social networks (GlobalWebIndex: 2015) On Mother’s Day, social media feeds are often full of celebration. Facebook reported that in 2017, Mother’s Day “drove more posts in a single day than any other topic on Facebook in the last year”. For some countries, Facebook...
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Article 5 mins
Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...care and support of vulnerable young men? A new research project, based at The Open University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys...
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Article 5 mins
‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...care from those in the UK who sent books at the same time as delivering, by literary means, distraction, entertainment, information, comfort, and relaxation for traumatised bodies and minds. The War Library was incredibly successful from the outset. It affiliated with the Red Cross in 1915, which helped raise its profile as well as meaning it could operate more...
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Article 10 mins
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...care provider or complete a course of quality antibiotics. Instead, they might turn to unregulated markets for substandard drugs. But why do people resort to unregulated markets or take drugs that aren’t that great if they are available?Marcella Alsan, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine who studies the relationship between...
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Article 5 mins
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority. Here she took on the role of Women’s Housing Officer, interviewing families, and...
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