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‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...public health awareness campaign on food allergies is needed. Food allergy is not the same as food sensitivity. Food allergy is not a choice. Food allergy is a medical condition. This invisible condition of epidemic proportions needs to be normalised in conversations, supported in policy, and visible in everyday practices. Some people with food allergies have told us that...
Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...Perspective on Possible Future Directions. Adolescent Res Rev 5, 77–89 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-019-00119-9 Wittberg RA, Northrup KL, Cottrell LA. Children's aerobic fitness and academic achievement: a longitudinal examination of students during their fifth and seventh grade years. Am J Public Health. 2012;102(12):2303-2307. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300515...
How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...health, public health and social care practitioners. Unlike the navigation through the scientific uncertainties generated by the new coronavirus infection, NICE guidelines are produced following a very thorough, systematic and painstaking analysis of all available good quality scientific evidence in a given area. The heart of a guideline is a set of practical...
Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...publications/health-matters-getting-every-adult-active-every-day/health-matters-getting-every-adult-active-every-day (Accessed 08 April 2019). Slutsky, R., and DeShetler, L. M. (2017) How technology is transforming the ways in which children play. Early Child Development and Care, 187(7), pp. 1138-1146. Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related...
Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...public health advice to wear a mask to limit the spread of Coronavirus becomes a matter for political debate, with politicians and public alike slow to accept the advice that face coverings are a necessary part of the prevention strategy (Ahmad, 2020; Mueller, 2020). Given the vilification of the niqab as symbolic of oppression and subjugation, not only in the UK but...
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...public health situation? How do you think this can be controlled? Elisabeth: Yes, there are some people who claim that the COVID-19 pandemic is not too bad. Some are ignoring shelter-in-place orders, demanding that sports events, cinemas, and other large gatherings will reopen. They do not realise that the situation might have been far worse without these social...
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...Public Health England, 2019; National Audit Office, 2009). The issue of infection control is of such concern that policy development has been a focus of organisations at world, European and national levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that: Infection prevention and control measures aim to ensure the protection of those who might be vulnerable to acquiring...
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...public health bodies, government agencies and sports governing bodies to increase female physical activity. For example, the This Girl Can campaign, launched by Sport England in 2015, is aimed at encouraging more women to be physically active, as well as sport-specific governing body campaigns such as Back to Netball. To maintain general health and wellbeing, individuals...