A project to promote health awareness among firefighters
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Firefighting is a hazardous job and it affects health both physically and psychosocially. Fighting Fit is a collaborative project run by the Cheshire Fire Service, Warrington Primary Care Trust and the firefighters themselves based on a model designed for use with local amateur footballers and rugby players called Tackling Health, it uses an internal competition that aims to convey a serious health message in an informal and fun way.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2006
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Raising awareness of Raynaud's phenomenon and scleroderma
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The 2005 Raynaud's and scleroderma awareness campaign aims to highlight Raynaud's phenomenon, a common episodic circulatory disorder, and also increase the detection rates. The treatment for systematic sclerosis, which is the sub-type of scleroderma, includes mobility drugs to help with difficult swallowing, antibiotics to help control bacterial overgrowth in the bowel and so on.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2005
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Evaluation of a sun awareness project for school children
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The planning, implementation and evaluation of a sun awareness and education project delivered in a primary school are presented.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2007
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