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Researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research, Bielefeld University

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April 15, 2024

How the pandemic deepened an existing wellbeing crisis in headteaching – new research

Emily Marchant, Swansea University; Orkan Okan, Bielefeld University, and Tom Crick, Swansea University

A new study reveals the extent of the COVID pandemic’s effect on headteachers, including high workloads, stress and exhaustion.

Commuters outside Nairobi Railway Station wash their hands before entering the train station as a preventive measure against COVID-19. Photo by Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

March 19, 2020

COVID‑19: a guide to good practice on keeping people well informed

Orkan Okan, Bielefeld University; Kristine Sørensen, University of Education Freiburg, and Melanie Messer, APOLLON University of Applied Sciences

Health literacy is the degree to which people can get, understand and use basic health information to make decisions about health issues.

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