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Empowerment – a way of working to enable people to gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health. Participative – where people take an active part in decision making. Holistic – taking account of the separate influences on health and the interaction of these dimensions. Equitable – ensuring fairness of outcomes for service users. Intersectoral – working in partnership with other… Read More »

I adore inspirational quotations– and I’ll admit that I have a rather silly habit of keeping long lists of my favorites.  After spending a considerable amount of time weeding through the bunch, I’m pleased to present 41 tidbits of advice from famous folks who know/knew a thing or two about leadership, determination, and putting your heart into something… Read More »

Ideas and expectations regarding gender roles have changed quite a bit in the past 50 years. However, the patterns that have influenced human behavior for centuries are still potent, especially when members of older generations are involved. Some of those old patterns involve relationships between mothers and their adult sons. As men get married and have children of… Read More »

I don’t know how many pitch decks I’ve seen, but I’m noticing a common trend. Founders never forget the problem, the solution, the market size, the team, etc. However, the traction slide seems to frequently and conveniently be ignored. On the one hand, I can understand why founders with little traction may be tempted to try and divert… Read More »

Do you ever have “those” days? You know, the ones where the shine seems to have gone off life, or maybe you had an exciting thing happen and now you have the letdown blues? Maybe everything is going wrong, or seems to be.ADVERTISEMENT Sometimes this can result in getting very down on yourself, and your self esteem can… Read More »

adultery, sexual relations between a married person and someone other than the spouse. Written or customary prohibitions or taboos against adultery constitute part of the marriage code of virtually every society. Indeed, adultery seems to be as universal and, in some instances, as common as marriage. The Code of Hammurabi (18th century BC) in Babylonia provided a punishment of death by drowning for adultery. In ancient Greece and in Roman law, an offending female spouse could be killed,… Read More »

Water scarcity involves water crisis, water shortage, water deficit or water stress. Water scarcity can be due to physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity. Physical water scarcity refers to a situation where natural water resources are unable to meet a region’s demand while economic water scarcity is a result of poor water management resources. There are millions of people… Read More »

Quoted and reported speech, also referred to as direct and indirect speech, are usedfrequently, both in writing and in everyday speech. Journalists use quoted speech intheir articles, and everyone uses the odd quote when relating an interesting story.Reported speech can be found in business writing, journalistic writing, and again, ineveryday speech.This module introduces reported speech in six one-hour… Read More »