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Engineering a healthier NHS: How systems thinking could revolutionalise health and care

As the NHS faces record waiting lists, staff shortages, and rising demand, researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering Design Centre are applying systems approaches to tackle the complexity. This article explores how systems thinking can help address the NHS’s most complex challenges.

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Minds and movement: How displacement can spur intergenerational trauma

People lighting candles; Photo by AHMAD BADER on Unsplash

The movement of people and ideas can stimulate adaptive growth and development. However, forced or voluntary movement in the midst of disrupted societal systems can be a traumatic experience, especially if identities, roles, bonds, and networks are broken or even eliminated.

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Supporting parents to enhance young people’s mental health

Mental illness and negative family relationship dynamics are often treated as policy-focused silos. Yet, one likely affects the other, and without effective intervention, patterns of mental health problems and negative family interaction patterns are more likely to repeat across generations.

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Designing homes for a warming world

Residents of some newly built affordable housing units in the Global South are in danger of illness, isolation and extreme heat toxicity. Insofar as housing developments continue to ignore the social norms of their intended residents, these problems are likely to only grow worse.

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800 years of death and disease in Cambridge: a guided walking tour

This walk provides a heartening story of the improvement in medical care and social welfare in Cambridge. Along the way, we will give plenty of lurid details revealing just how pestilential this beautiful city of ours once was.

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