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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Public health crisis (action) Illiteracy eradication African knowledge program Psychological rehabilitation Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth distribution)...
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Article 5 mins
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...public mental health messages aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of the whole population. Being active is one of the five messages, with guidance to enjoy physical activity that is suited to individual needs, such as mobility and fitness, given. [Poster explaining the Five Ways to Wellbeing: connect, be active, take notice, keep learning, give. Full...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...Public Health England, 2019). Some of the mental illnesses that can be experienced by adolescents are emotional disorders, eating disorders, psychosis and self-harm or suicide. At the time of writing the third largest cause of death for 15–19-year-olds was suicide (Public Health England, 2018); therefore it is crucial that adults working within health and social care...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...Public health officials in the USA in the 1940s were actively campaigning to halt the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in ways that may surprise you (Figure 11a), and in the decade ending in 1960 more than 102 000 people in the USA – many of them children (Figure 11b) – were paralysed by polio (data from Post-Polio Health International, n.d.; note that ‘n.d.’ indicates...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...Public health and social care budgets are not protected, limiting capacity to prevent illness and care for vulnerable people outside hospitals. And 2% increases in council tax for social care will not make up for annual reductions of 2.2% since 2009, which hit deprived areas hardest. Partly as a consequence, delayed discharges from NHS hospitals are at their highest...
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Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...public health systems, pushing many people to visit private hospitals that charge high amounts for treatment and care. COVID-19 has demonstrated that the private model of health (i.e. health system relying mostly on for cost services) totally failed in a number of countries due to private hospitals electing to not treat COVID-19 patients. Those hospitals that were open...
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Article 15 mins
Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...public health to AI governance and global justice—requires students to develop skills that go beyond subject-specific knowledge. They need interdisciplinary competencies such as systems thinking to grasp how issues are interconnected, cross-cultural communication for working with peers worldwide on health or environmental projects, ethical reasoning to weigh the...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...public concern about environmental damage and public health from pesticide use, and in particular dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The story of DDT illustrates how ideas and perspectives about environmental management have changed over time...Environmental management and organisations: 7 DDT - DDT is an acronym with a bleak history. But this was not always so. Prior...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs