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Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...health. Focusing on anxiety and depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions, exploring how these conditions relate to each other. You will also explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course, Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression, serves as...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...public as well as private? Peter Bloom discusses customer service in the contemporary age...[A customer service desk at an airport] Consumer services lies at the heart of almost any successful business. The commitment and ability to meet customer needs seems straightforward. However, it requires sophisticated forms of management and dynamic organizational strategies. It...
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...public authority (which includes local authorities, health authorities and the police) to act in a way that is incompatible with the rights set out in the ECHR. The HRA 1998 gives effect to the rights contained in the ECHR by: making it unlawful for any public authority to act, or fail to act, in any way that is incompatible with the rights contained in the ECHR; the term...
What's your personality profile?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's your personality profile?

...Our Time - on the COOT survey page. Find out more Study children... The Open University offers a number of courses that allow you to study childhood: Understanding Children; Childhood and Child Development among them. ... study people Starting With Psychology, Understanding Health and Discovering Psychology are just a few of the courses for study with The Open University....
Everyday maths: statistics in the news
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths: statistics in the news

...we see or hear. By the end of this activity, you will learn: how to read and ask questions about health data and reports in the news how to look at graphs and charts, and make sure they don't mislead you general rules to follow when looking at statistics in the news. [Activity banner image. Everyday maths: statistics in the news.] Everyday maths: statistics in the news...
Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research

...health conditions and disabilities. For instance, there are five million people of South Asian heritage living in the UK today. That’s 8% of the total UK population. Yet, the proportion of South Asians included in genetics research is far below this. In UK Biobank, for example, only 2% of data comes from South Asians. Their representation, therefore, needs to increase...
How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...health condition. Within this group, certain health conditions have been identified as increasing the risk of developing severe COVID-19 (see this article on protecting extremely vulnerable people from COVID-19). Are cancer patients at higher risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19? To answer this question, we have consulted several reports on COVID-19 epidemiology....
Treezilla
Society, Politics & Law

Treezilla

...public can get involved with. The idea is to map every tree in Britain. This will create a data-rich platform on which a wide range of citizen science investigations can be built". Treezilla is one of many applications available with The OpenScience Laboratory. It was initiated by researchers, scientists & educators and encourages people to participate through an online...
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