Amid her calls for governments to act on climate change, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has spoken openly about her Asperger's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She is not the only environmental campaigner to speak ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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Employers' initiatives to help workers cope with their jobs are no help at reducing stress, a new study has found.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2021
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New research has demonstrated for the first time the widely discussed but poorly documented link between job quality, working conditions and mental health for women in UK workplaces.
Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2022
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A link between major political and social crises and mental health has been highlighted as part of research by a historian at the University of Sheffield that is seeking to increase our understanding of suicide.
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2018
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A new study by a UT Dallas criminologist finds that solitary confinement does not deter inmates from committing further violence in prison.
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2015
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In the middle of a work project at a global corporate consulting firm, Katherine Switz was gripped with a debilitating bout of anxiety. Her body froze, her heart raced, her chest tightened, and her mind went blank, which ...
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2019
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Extreme weather has been the cause of some of the biggest public health crises across the world in recent years. In many cases, these have been enhanced by human-induced climate change. For instance, in 2003, high summer ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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The repair of ecosystems as a core public health intervention can reduce the risk of infection and play an integral role in the long-term rehabilitation from COVID-19, which has so far claimed up to 15 million lives globally ...
Ecology
Sep 8, 2022
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Mental health experts in the past three decades have emphasized the dangers of post-partum depression for mothers, but a University of Kansas researcher says expanding awareness of several other perinatal mental health conditions ...
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2014
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New research from the University of Hertfordshire reveals the acute extent of food poverty amongst immigrants in the U.K. who have no access to welfare benefits, with widespread reports of food shortages and lack of appropriate ...
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2022
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