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  • Why are we still talking about healthy places?

    In recent years, there has been a wide ranging debate across the housing, planning, health and infrastructure sectors about the development of healthy places in both regeneration and newly approved projects. In 2016, Town and Country Planning Journal published an ....

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  • Virtual reality: a game changer for mental health treatment?

    Demand for mental health treatment in the UK far outstrips supply. And the outbreak of COVID-19 has forced many primary care services to think creatively not only about demand and supply, which has increased further during the pandemic, but also ....

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  • Counting down the hours: could a shorter working week raise productivity and improve our mental health?

    In 1930, the influential British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within 100 years the working week would have shrunk to 15 hours. He believed that as living standards rose people would choose to have more leisure time as their ....

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  • The Covid-19 knock-on: public health and the impact of delays in non-urgent treatment and diagnosis

    Since the beginning of the pandemic, concerns have been raised about the wider public health impacts of coronavirus. In addition to strains on acute NHS care services on the frontline, there are warnings about the additional public health impacts of ....

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  • Digital infrastructure supporting health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Healthcare is a key frontline service in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The NHS has had to react at pace to plan and deliver services in new and innovative ways. Digital healthcare solutions are at the fore of ensuring ....

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  • Guest post: Economic effects of coronavirus lockdowns are staggering – but health recovery must be prioritised

    By Pushan Dutt, INSEAD In all my years as an economist, I have never seen a graph like the one below. It shows unemployment claims in the US – observe the spike for the week ending March 21. The global ....

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  • An app a day … how m-health could revolutionise our engagement with the NHS

    It seems like almost every day now we see in the news and read in newspapers about the increasing pressures on our NHS, strains on resources and the daily challenges facing already overworked GP staff. Mobile health applications (m-health apps) ....

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  • Supporting perinatal mental health: from peer-support to specialist services

    There is a societal expectation that pregnancy and the arrival of a new baby are happy and exciting times.  However, it may come as a surprise to learn that up to 1 in 5 women develop a mental illness during ....

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  • Rolling the dice with sexual health? New challenges for STI services

    Today is the start of Sexual Health Week, which aims to raise awareness about services for the testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The UK has a strong track record in the provision of STI services. But they ....

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  • Museums as facilitators of health and wellbeing in communities

    It’s estimated that there are over 2500 museums in the UK, ranging from world-famous collections in major cities to small local ones on niche themes. Over 50% of adults have visited a museum or gallery in the last year and ....

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