Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. I have been working in the realms of everyday community creativity and diversity for a while now. When I began to experience symptoms 16 years ago, I found myself needing new strategies and knowledge in order to improve my experience of daily life. At first it did not occur to me to connect my creative practice (largely...
...mental health: Black students and mental health declarations Rehana Awan shares findings from a project she worked on with colleagues at The Open University looking at mental health declarations for Black students. Transcript How we can teach children about race and why it’s important that we do Mel Green’s presentation explores how children and ......
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
...health and wellbeing. In our analysis of nationally representative data, we found that young (aged 16-25 years) British women who have sex with women (WSW) were less likely to report lessons at school as their main source of information about sex when growing up compared to women who have sex exclusively with men (WSEM). Instead, WSW were more likely to report a category...
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...mental health. This module covers addiction as one of its topics with a focus on the role of dopamine in producing risk taking behaviour. The module also covers other aspects of mental health including mood disorders like depression and anxiety, as well as dementias. SDK228 is part of our degree in Health Sciences (Q71) and our degree in Natural Sciences (Q64), as ......
Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
...health and wellbeing of people using or needing registered nurses’ services. It too keeps a register, sets standards of education and training and ensures they are met, and investigates allegations made about registered nurses and midwives. Few people would argue that such regulation is unnecessary, while some might argue that it is so self-evidently desirable that...