48 episodes

What does your health mean to you? What features in society affect it? The tracks on this album explore influences such as stress, housing and employment on everyday health, and examines debates about the relative importance of individual lifestyles and looks at wider public-health concerns and the impact of changes in NHS policy and practice on the delivery of health care. Health is increasingly ‘everybody’s business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study.

This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health.

Working for health - for iPad/Mac/PC The Open University

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What does your health mean to you? What features in society affect it? The tracks on this album explore influences such as stress, housing and employment on everyday health, and examines debates about the relative importance of individual lifestyles and looks at wider public-health concerns and the impact of changes in NHS policy and practice on the delivery of health care. Health is increasingly ‘everybody’s business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study.

This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health.

    Working for health

    Working for health

    A short introduction to this album.

    • 1 min
    Transcript -- Working for health

    Transcript -- Working for health

    A short introduction to this album.

    • video
    Radical midwives

    Radical midwives

    London midwives talk about their rebellion against new practices within the NHS, and why they set up the Association of Radical Midwives.

    • 4 min
    Transcript -- Radical midwives

    Transcript -- Radical midwives

    London midwives talk about their rebellion against new practices within the NHS, and why they set up the Association of Radical Midwives.

    • video
    Gene activists

    Gene activists

    Activists challenge the safety claims and the science behind the commercial exploitation of GM technology.

    • 5 min
    Transcript -- Gene activists

    Transcript -- Gene activists

    Activists challenge the safety claims and the science behind the commercial exploitation of GM technology.

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