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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...health and well-being ahead of their occupation compared to before the pandemic took hold. [Photograph of a person responding to a survey screen, asking them "How was your day?"] Kuzior et al. (2022) gave a sobering explanation for this, citing the increased number of what David Graeber (2018) famously described as ‘bullshit’ jobs. Graeber defines these jobs as...
The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...health care system throughout the world” (p4). The report is equally emphatic that the solution does not on the whole lie with blaming individuals, or rooting out incompetent or negligent staff. Sometimes, of course, individuals do need to be held transparently to account, when they have been willfully or recklessly negligent or involved in mistreatment. However, the...
How to be a critical reader
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How to be a critical reader

...mental health problems as caused primarily within families or by our own irrational thinking. Instead, a complex interplay of genetic forces are seen as powerful causes and reinforcers of individual problems. Feltham, C. (2007) What’s Wrong With Us? The Anthropathology Thesis, Chichester, Wiley Task 2 Identify the central idea and other key ideas in each paragraph of...
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From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
Combating air pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Combating air pollution

...health... Air pollution Keeping watch on the invisible. The Clean Air Act banished smog from our cities in the 1950s, but today there are new types of air pollution . Pollution: shipping How do we measure pollution in the air and what vehicles have the worst emissions? Lloyds's 5 year study compares ship emissions and air quality on shore. Pollution: cars Lab tests are...
Diabetes care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diabetes care

...health complications leading, amongst other problems, to blindness, foot ulcers and kidney failures. This album is a must-watch for diabetes sufferers and medical staff training to work with diabetes patients. Six video tracks introduce various aspects of a patient’s diabetes annual check-up, and the accompanying 'activity' files can be used while watching the videos to...
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...Mental Health Nursing, 15(2), pp. 84–92. Heilman, M. E. and Caleo, S. (2018) ‘Gender discrimination in the workplace’. In The Oxford handbook of workplace discrimination, pp. 73–88. Johnson, L. (2018) ‘Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination’. Open University OpenLearn. Available at: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=68113§ion=3...
Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?
Education & Development

Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?

...health inequalities issue. While the idea of tackling this head on and talking to boys in schools sounds good in practice, from my experience as an educational sexual health worker in central Manchester it is difficult to discuss sensitive issues such as menstruation with boys and young men. The overriding responses tend to be that girls get “moody” or “smell...