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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

...management of national and global health risks. 1: Disruption to maternal care and reproductive services Target 3.1 of SDG3 aims to reduce the global maternal mortality (i.e. where a woman dies from pregnancy related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy) ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030 (UN Women (2020)). Improvements in...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...managing overlapping forms of oppression linked with gender, race and disability (Malcolm and Green, 2025). The Triad of Oppression In our early conversations, born out of the informality and authenticity of friendship, we had distilled our research interests into a deceptively straightforward question: ‘what is it like to be a Black mother raising an autistic child in...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...manage at home, that would be fine, that wasn’t an issue; full-length programmes we needed American money and the Americans weren’t interested in anything that was happening in England and the English weren’t interested in anything that was happening in America. So we fell between two stools and we failed. Since ‘Nature’ came off air has the BBC succeeded in...
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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...Management/Control [Two air traffic controllers look out from Heathrow air traffic control tower over the runways. ]Air traffic management is a system for making sure that all aircraft are safe at all times. In the same way that drivers of cars have to obey the rules of the road, pilots also have a huge number of laws and regulations they must adhere to ensure the safety...
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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...managers and educators). Batalden and Davidoff (2007) propose that quality improvement is: …the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...managed? What can guarantee equality and fairness? What kind of good change do you want? Such challenges ask unsettling questions as well as promote alternative visions of what is meant by development...Global development requires thinking about social, economic, political, cultural and environmental change in ways that acknowledge the complexity and interconnectedness of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...manager covering the north side of Telford. I stayed in team management for probably about four years, until the job came up in EDT. Morning, how are you? SPEAKER 2: Very well, thank you. SAM SWAN: Good, good. Very rare opportunity for a job to come up in the emergency duty team, where I am now. So it was an ideal opportunity, really, to go back in as a practitioner....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs