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PRESERVED COURSE COLLECTION

Lifelong Health

All 100 course texts, in English and Chinese, brought into one reading index.

Original source and review notes remain with the lessons. Imported content has not been newly medically or professionally reviewed.

Health Across Body, Mind, and Social Life

From Cells to the Human Body

How Cells Use Energy, Move Substances, and Communicate

Genes and Environment: Why People Differ

How the Body Maintains Stability: Regulation, Feedback, and Adaptation

Microbes and the Human Body: Coexistence, Protection, and Disease

How Health Research Works: Experiments, Observation, and Causation

Understanding health research: probability, risk and uncertainty

The Body as a Whole: Where Organs Are and How They Connect

How the heart beats

Circulation: vessels, pressure and tissue perfusion

Blood: transport, defence and haemostasis

Breathing: ventilation, gas exchange and regulation

Digestion, absorption and elimination

How the liver processes nutrients, drugs and metabolites

The kidneys: urine, fluid balance and acid–base regulation

The nervous system: sensing, signalling and control

Hormones, endocrine systems and feedback

Immunity and lymph: recognition, defence and tolerance

How bones, joints and muscles produce movement

Skin: protection, sensation and temperature regulation

Systems working together: exercise, meals and heat

Sensation and perception

Attention, memory and learning

Emotion, the body and judgement

Stress: immediate responses and long-term effects

Motivation, reward and habits

Relationships: attachment, communication and support

Anxiety: responses, persistent difficulties and help

Depression: mood, thinking, body and daily life

Addiction: substances, behaviour and loss of control

Mental disorders: assessment, treatment and recovery

The nutrients the body needs

Carbohydrates: digestion, blood glucose and energy

Fats: energy stores, cell structure and transport

Protein: from food to tissue synthesis and renewal

Vitamins, minerals and water

Hunger, satiety, weight and energy balance

Dietary patterns, portions and long-term habits

Food processing, cooking and preservation

Food safety, allergies and foodborne illness

Nutrition research, labels and health claims

Energy supply during exercise

Understanding and improving aerobic fitness

Strength training and muscular adaptation

How bones and tendons respond to load

Balance, coordination and mobility

From walking to training: planning activity that works for you

Recovery, fatigue and training load

Sports injury, healing and return to activity

Sleep stages and regulation

Circadian rhythms and daily function

Sleep, memory, mood, metabolism and immunity

Insomnia and the evidence for interventions

Snoring, sleep apnoea and daytime sleepiness

Light, shift work, jet lag and sleep

The reproductive system and sexual health

The menstrual cycle, conception and contraception

Preconception health and genetic risk

Embryonic and fetal development

Birth, postpartum recovery and family adjustment

How newborns adapt after birth

Infant feeding, sleep and safe care

Child growth, movement and language

Children's emotions, learning and social development

Puberty, psychological development and autonomy

Injury, compensation and dysfunction

Infection: pathogens, hosts and transmission

Inflammation: protection and tissue injury

Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease

Diabetes: insulin, glucose regulation and long-term effects

Cancer and the loss of growth control

Allergy and autoimmunity

Pain: bodily signals and nervous system processing

Chronic respiratory disease

Living with multiple chronic conditions

From symptoms to diagnosis

Interpreting tests: reference ranges, error and false positives

Screening: benefits and limitations

Medicines: action, dose, metabolism and interactions

Comparing treatments and personal preferences

Preparing for visits and shared decisions

Rehabilitation and long-term care

Oral health, vision and hearing

Recognising emergencies and calling for help

Cardiac arrest, CPR and AEDs

Choking, severe bleeding and injury

Mental health crises and timely help

Health inequalities, resources and access to care

How epidemiology studies disease in populations

Vaccination and population prevention

Air, water, chemicals and environmental exposure

Work, occupational exposure and protection

Climate, cities, nature and health

Adult changes, reproductive health and menopause

Ageing: cells, organs and individual variation

Later-life fitness, nutrition, frailty and falls

Cognitive ageing, dementia and daily support

Family caregiving and the needs of everyone involved

End-of-life care, comfort and personal wishes