Introducing a National Well-being Service for emergency responders in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-274
Author(s):  
Ian Hesketh ◽  
Cary L. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emergency Responders ◽  
The United Kingdom

The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262098676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yue ◽  
Marc Cowling
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rare Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Period Data ◽  
The Uk

It is well documented that the self-employed experience higher levels of happiness than waged employees even when their incomes are lower. Given the UK government’s asymmetric treatment of waged workers and the self-employed, we use a unique Covid-19 period data set which covers the months leading up to the March lockdown and the months just after to assess three aspects of the Covid-19 crisis on the self-employed: hours of work reductions, the associated income reductions and the effects of both on subjective well-being. Our findings show the large and disproportionate reductions in hours and income for the self-employed directly contributed to a deterioration in their levels of subjective well-being compared to waged workers. It appears that their resilience was broken when faced with the reality of dealing with rare events, particularly when the UK welfare support response was asymmetric and favouring waged employees.

scholarly journals How are nature based solutions contributing to priority societal challenges surrounding human well-being in the United Kingdom: a systematic map protocol

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Dick ◽  
James D. Miller ◽  
Jonathan Carruthers-Jones ◽  
Anne J. Dobel ◽  
Steve Carver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Cost Efficacy ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract Background The concept of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) has evolved as an umbrella concept embracing concepts such as Green/Blue/Nature Infrastructure, Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystem Services, but at their core, they cluster into the general theme of learning from and using nature to create sustainable socio-ecological systems, which enhance human well-being (HWB). NBS address societal challenges across a broad range of spatial scales—local, regional and global—and temporal scales—medium to long-term. While there are many reviews and a clear evidence base linking certain NBS to various elements of HWB, particularly urban greenspace and human health, no comprehensive mapping exists of the links between NBS interventions and the associated multiple positive and negative HWB outcomes across a range of habitats. The initial research phase used a participatory co-design process to select four priority societal challenges facing the United Kingdom: three related to management issues i.e. NBS cost-efficacy, governance in planning, environmental justice, and the fourth threats to the acoustic environment. These challenges collectively address priority management issues which stakeholders requested be investigated widely i.e. across landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and soundscapes. Results of the study are intended to identify and define potential future environmental evidence challenges for UK science. Methods This protocol describes the methodology for approaching the research question: What evidence is there for nature based solutions and their impacts on human wellbeing for societal challenges related to cost-efficacy, governance in planning, environmental justice, and the acoustic environment? Using systematic mapping, this study will search for and identify studies that seek to assess nature-based solutions on human well-being with regard to these four societal challenges. Systematic searches across a number of academic/online databases are tested against a number of test articles. Search results are refined using eligibility criteria through a three stage process: title, abstract, full text. Data from screened studies are extracted using a predefined coding strategy. Key trends in data will be synthesized according to a range of secondary questions and be presented in a graphical matrix illustrating the knowledge gaps and clusters for research into nature-based solutions and human well-being for each societal challenge.

scholarly journals Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1087-1118
Author(s):  
J. Benjamin Hurlbut ◽  
Ingrid Metzler ◽  
Luca Marelli ◽  
Sheila Jasanoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Self Knowledge

Genetic testing has become a vehicle through which basic constitutional relationships between citizens and the state are revisited, reaffirmed, or rearticulated. The interplay between the is of genetic knowledge and the ought of government unfolds in the context of diverse imaginaries of the forms of human well-being, freedom, and flourishing that states have a duty to support. This article examines how the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States governed testing for Alzheimer’s disease, and how they diverged in defining potential harms, benefits, and objects of regulation. Comparison before and after the arrival of direct-to-consumer genetic tests reveals differences in national understandings of what it means to protect life and citizenship: in the United Kingdom, ensuring physical wellness through clinical utility; in the United States, protecting both citizens’ physical well-being and freedom to choose through a framework of consumer protection; and in Germany, emphasizing individual flourishing and an unburdened sense of human development that is expressed in genetic testing law and policy as a commitment to the stewardship of personhood. Operating with their own visions of what it means to protect life and citizenship, these three states arrived at settlements that coproduced substantially different bioconstitutional regimes around Alzheimer’s testing.

scholarly journals A criação da Rede Brasil-Reino Unido em Medicina & Ciência da Dança como um lugar potencial de relações entre pesquisas poético-criacionais.

Ouvirouver ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
VALERIA Maria Chaves FIGUEIREDO ◽  
Adriano Bittar ◽  
Alexandre Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Training Performance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Education Psychology ◽  
The University ◽  
Dance Medicine ◽  
Medicine Education

A Medicina e Ciência da Dança (MCD) é uma área que se desenvolve há mais de 20 anos através da colaboração entre profissionais da dança, medicina, educação, psicologia, nutrição, dentre outros. O objetivo é promover o bem-estar e saúde dos dançarinos através do desenvolvimento de pesquisas e serviços nas diversas vertentes, desde a saúde, treinamento, performance, bem-estar, educação e a cena artística. No Reino Unido, a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, líder na área da MCD, em parceria com o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE – NIDMS, formado por esta instituição e o BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN E UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, iniciou em 2016, amplo diálogo com a UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO e UFRGS, além de outros interessados da iniciativa privada e pessoas físicas, no sentido de estruturar uma cooperação internacional, constituindo assim, a REDE BRASIL-REINO UNIDO EM MCD. O objetivo central é desenvolver pesquisas e serviços colaborativos durante o período de 15 anos, estabelecendo caminhos transdisciplinares para o sucesso da parceria Dança, Ciência e Saúde. ABSTRACT Dance Medicine & Science (DMS) is a field of study that has developed globally over the last 20 years through the collaboration of different professionals, from dance, medicine, education, psychology, nutrition, among others. The goal is to promote the well-being and health of dancers through the development of research and services in various aspects, from health, training, performance, well-being and education. In the United Kingdom, the UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, a leader in the DMS field, in partnership with the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE - NIDMS, formed by this university and BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN AND UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, started, in 2016, a broad dialogue with UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO and UFRGS, as well as with other stakeholders from the private sector and individuals, in order to create an international cooperation, through the BRAZIL-UNITED KINGDOM DMS NETWORK. The main objective is to develop research and collaborative services during a 15-year period, establishing transdisciplinary ways for the advancement of the partnership Dance, Science and Health. KEY WORDS: Network, dance, medicine, science.

scholarly journals Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunigan Parker Folk ◽  
Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto ◽  
Elizabeth Warren Dunn ◽  
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Negative Effect

In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals’ feelings of social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well-being obtained prior to the COVID-19 pandemic by recruiting the same participants again in the midst of the pandemic’s upending effects. Study 1 included a sample of undergraduates from a Canadian university (N = 467), and Study 2 included community adults primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom (N = 336). Our results suggest that people experienced relatively little change in feelings of social connection in the face of the initial reshaping of their social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploratory analyses suggested that relatively extraverted individuals exhibited larger declines in social connection. However, after controlling for levels of social connection prior to the pandemic (as pre-registered), the negative effect of extraversion reversed (Study 1) or disappeared (Study 2).

Case Study From the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-208
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
The United Kingdom

For most people, well-being is understood and experienced at a local scale. Their community or city is where housing, green spaces, social cohesion, mental health, and many other vital elements of well-being play out in daily life. Local governments and other stakeholders also tend to be the most willing and able to try innovative approaches. Local wins, in turn, inform and inspire action in other areas and often build to national change....

scholarly journals ‘You come because it is an interesting place’: The impact of attending a heritage programme on the well-being of people living with dementia and their care partners

Dementia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147130122098538
Author(s):  
Anthea Innes ◽  
Helen F Scholar ◽  
Jana Haragalova ◽  
Monika Sharma
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Care Partners ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

Promoting access to heritage settings has been acknowledged as a way to promote well-being in the United Kingdom for people living with dementia and their care partners. Yet there is a lack of information available internationally on the contribution of heritage sites to promote well-being and social inclusion for those living with dementia. This study addresses this gap by reporting on the impact for 48 people of participating in the ‘Sensory Palaces’ (SP) programme run by Historic Royal Palaces at Hampton Court and Kew Palaces in the United Kingdom. Two primary data sources were used; post-session interviews involving 30 participants (the person living with dementia and/or their care partners), and 131 sets of self-complete pre- and post-session mood questionnaires administered directly before and after SP session attendance. Analysis of the data sets is presented under three themes: enjoyment and engagement; connecting and learning and place, space and time. The findings demonstrate that participants highly valued the heritage sessions and reported positively on the impact this had for their individual well-being and their relationships with one another. This study highlights the opportunity for heritage sites to contribute to promoting well-being for people living with dementia.

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