Category: Well-Being

Health Information Week

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public.

High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. We all need information that we can trust, particularly in this time of coronavirus. We also need to look after our wellbeing, whether our mental health or our physical health. In response to these needs, Health Information Week 2020 runs from 6th to 12th July and focuses on the themes of:

• Finding information you can trust

• Wellbeing

During next week the library will be promoting both themes via the library blog and in the Gosall Library. 

Read more here

Health and Well-being

How to maintain a slower pace of life after lockdown

Before lockdown, our lives were defined by speed. Rushing around, living life at rocket pace was the norm. Keeping up with work responsibilities, social obligations and the latest tech or fashion trends was a never-ending feat. Only a privileged few could afford to slow down. This research shows that in order to experience the benefits of slowing down, people must decelerate in three ways.

Working From Home

Zoom fatigue: how to make video calls less tiring

Many phrases have entered our vocabulary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown “Zoom fatigue” refers to the mental exhaustion associated with online video conferencing.

Read here for advice on how to get the most out of online video conferencing

Health and Wellbeing

May is Living Streets’ National Walking Month

Walking is a great way to stay both physically and mentally fit. Now more than ever, during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is incredibly important to keep active, both for our own wellbeing and to avoid storing up health problems for ourselves and the NHS in the future. Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking, is laying down a challenge, #TRY20, for us all to try walking for 20 minutes each day and feel the benefits.

For tips and advice from Living Streets on how to keep your walks interesting and safe during lockdown click here

COVID-19

13 Things on the internet to lift your spirits right now

It is unpleasant, frightening and often lonely to be living in the time of a global pandemic.  But as the Coronavirus’ continuing spread contains people across the world in isolation in our homes, good citizens of the internet have stepped up to help fill the void of physical human connection.

Here are a few things that have distracted, delighted and entertained us in the strange, new, primarily virtual reality.

NHS Employers

The health, safety and wellbeing of shift workers in healthcare environments

This guidance explores: how shift work can impact on health, safety and wellbeing; what measures can be taken by employers and employees; and the importance of partnership working on shift working patterns.

Read the guidance here

Children and young people’s mental health: prevention evidence: Summary report and outputs from a review of evidence for universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Public Health England, October 2019

This series of reports summarises the evidence for the effectiveness of universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.  The documents are intended for strategic and operational leads, working on children and young people’s mental health.  The report of the findings of a Special Interest Group summarises the approach, findings and recommendations.

Click here to access the reports.

Social return on investment analysis of the health and wellbeing impacts of Wildlife Trust programmes

The Wildlife Trust, October 2019

This report finds that prescribing contact with nature for people who have low levels of mental wellbeing is excellent value for money by improving people’s health and wellbeing. Researchers at Leeds Beckett University analysed the social value of Wildlife Trusts’ nature conservation projects which offer outdoor volunteering opportunities and programmes that support people experiencing problems such as anxiety, stress or mild depression. The report draws on the conclusions of three years research which found that people participating in both sorts of outdoor nature conservation activities felt significantly better, both emotionally and physically, as a result.

Click here to view the full report.