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Klick Health releases Mother’s Day video in partnership with Path Forward

Stuart Mitchell

Klick Health has debuted The Mother of All Reviews, an emotional new video paying tribute to working moms in advance of Mother’s Day, and acknowledging the extra load they’ve shouldered throughout the pandemic. The video was produced in support of nonprofit Path Forward to help empower moms to restart their careers. In The Mother of All Reviews, six unsuspecting Klickster moms show up to their scheduled performance reviews, only to be brought to tears when they realize the reviews are from their families–not their colleagues. Their children and partners pre-recorded…

Mental Health Foundation joins Good For Me Good for FE

Stuart Mitchell

The Mental Health Foundation has joined the Further Education (FE) community action campaign Good for ME Good for FE, which encourages FE students across the country to do voluntary work in their area. The Foundation is also launching a well-being pack for students in FE, which will be distributed to colleges with support from the GfMGfFE network. The pack includes advice about improving and maintaining good mental health. Suggestions in the pack include: Get more and better sleep: sleep allows our bodies and minds to process and recover from the…

New Report Reveals Industry-Led Initiative Restricting Products Advertised to Kids Fails to Protect Them from Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages

Stuart Mitchell

Although recent revisions to the nutrition criteria used by the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), the food industry’s self-regulatory program, led to minor nutritional improvements in products that may be advertised to kids, the initiative fails to meaningfully protect them from marketing of unhealthy food and beverages, according to a new report from researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health at the University of Connecticut. The report, FACTS 2022. Food industry self-regulation: Changes in nutrition of foods and drinks that may be advertised to children,…

Healthcare Workers’ Foundation Donates More Than 65,000 Units Of PPE To Hospitals In Africa And The Maldives

Stuart Mitchell

The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers in the midst of the pandemic, has partnered with global environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans (Parley), for the second time to support healthcare workers in the Maldives. The two have joined forces again to donate PPE – including recycled visors, hospital gowns, masks and goggles – to hospitals based in the Maldives, providing enough equipment to support all of the hospitals and covid facilities across the entire country. To coincide with this initiative, the charity has…

New Report Demonstrates Strong Scientific Link Between Forests and Human Health

Stuart Mitchell

Marking two years since the current pandemic spread across the globe, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released The Vitality of Forests, a new report synthesizing a mounting body of evidence that documents how human health depends on forests. This is one of the first reports that details the escalating risks to human health associated with forest loss and degradation, including the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases. The findings strongly argue that the conservation, protection and restoration of the world’s forests are undeniably critical to safeguarding and promoting human health. “Forests…