A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 5
Contains thematic accounts of the parliamentary and governmental history of the county, and of developments in medicine and public health.
The medical history of British India
'The medical history of British India' is a website giving access to a number of reports and maps held by the National Library of Scotland detailing the advancements in public health made during the period of British rule of India. The fifty reports available on the site show the efforts of the colonial state to meet the demands placed upon it by endemic and epidemic diseases. The documents are presented as jpeg images and are also available as pdf downloads. The quality of these images is impr
Oil and gas UK There is a glossary of technical terms. A database of companies is provided. Press releases and photos are available. There is a free quarterly newsletter which can be downloaded in pdf format. A searchable database of publications is provided as well as a listing of events.
This site includes a knowledge centre with information on the operation of offshore gas and oil platforms as well as about environmental and health and safety issues.
Exploiting existing data for health research
Organised by Scottish Health Informatics Programme , to be held at University of St Andrews St Andrews United Kingdom from 2009-09-17 to 2009-09-19
A healthy exchange
The impact of the new Obama Health Reform Bill will be felt beyond America as it places a magnifying glass on cross-national challenges such as healthcare innovation, healthcare spending, transparency of processes and greater accountability says Dr Jim Rice, a US academic and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Health Leadership and Enterprise at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Health Social care
Health Social care Could you please recommend some literature for someone training to teach health and social care in a secondary school?
Ofsted subject conference report: PSHE (2005)
This is a very brief summary of the proceedings of an Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) conference in November 2005 involving 20 Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) coordinators from primary and secondary schools which had been inspected the previous year.
Clinical Laboratory Science in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University
This informational and promotional video was created by Marquette students for the Clinical Laboratory Science department in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University.
1.3.1 What it means
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
1.2.2 Learning new tasks
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
1.2 What's going on – learning online
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
Time for change? Personal, social and health education
This is a report published by Ofsted which considers the delivery and appropriateness of the personal, social and health education (PSHE) curriculum in English schools.
Teachers TV Mental Health Week
This week, 9 - 15 June, Teachers TV is focussing on some of the mental health issues teachers and pupils experience.
The Children's Plan One Year On: a progress report
The Children's Plan One Year On: a progress report is written and produced by the DCSF. It outlines in great detail (230 pages) the progress made by the UK government on fulfilling the aims of the Children's Plan which was presented to Parliament in December 2007. It sets out the steps the government plans to make in 2009 and beyond for integrated services (professionals in education, children support services, health services and the police) to work together to ensure that every child and young
Teachers TV Teacher Wellbeing Week
Teachers TV has a week of programmes (w/c 8 June) concentrating on some of the main issues affecting teachers' wellbeing, including stress, mental health, work/life balance and bullying.
Teachers TV Teen Wellbeing Week
Teachers TV has a week of programmes (w/c 15 June) exploring some of the emotional, mental health and social issues affecting teenagers today.
Teachers TV Child Safety Week
To coincide with Child Safety Week, Teachers TV has a week of programmes (w/c 22 June) looking at health and safety and safeguarding children in and out of school.
Exercise to Improve Self-Esteem in Children and Young People
This systematic Campbell Collaboration literature review by Norwegian authors investigated if exercise interventions have benefits for children and young people’s mental health, namely their self-esteem.
The "Oh, nothing much" report: The value of the after-school conversation
This report, commissioned by Becta to support its Next Generation Learning Campaign, is written by Professor Tanya Byron, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist specialising in child and adolescent mental health. It reports on an investigation into the role that successful communication between parent and child can have on raising attainment. It also considers the impact that technology can have in improving parent-child communication. The research surveyed 1000 children aged 7-14 years of age prima
RCGP position statement on climate change and health
This position statement on climate change and health was published by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in June 2010. The RCGP state that “the unsustainable use of resources poses a significant challenge to public health in the 21st Century and that human-induced climate change in particular threatens the long term health and well-being of populations in the UK and globally.”
