Children: FACE the past, future, your social media, Capitalism

INDIVIDUAL

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    INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

MENTAL HEALTH and WELLBEING LIFELONG LEARNING   KEY LITERACIES  PSHE EDUCATION -  Personal, Social,  Health and Economic

The Face

'Apps such as TikTok and Instagram are filled with videos of young girls and teenagers advising their peers on elaborate skincare routines, especially through a popular line of content called "Get Ready with Me". Parents have sounded the alarm over this trend, while recent medical literature has recognised the phenomenon of "cosmeticorexia", also called "dermorexia", defined as a culturally reinforced preoccupation or obsession with achieving "flawless" skin that can lead to "excessive, age-inappropriate or compulsive use of cosmetic products".'

'Italy is investigating a beauty retailer and make-up brand owned by French luxury group LVMH over claims their marketing has fuelled "cosmeticorexia", an unhealthy obsession with skincare among young girls. The Italian Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) said yesterday it was probing Sephora and Benefit Cosmetics for suspected "unfair commercial practices" with the promotion of skincare products such as face masks, serums and anti-ageing creams to girls as young as 10 years old. Those marketing campaigns were carried out mainly via social media, the  regulator said, leading young girls to "compulsively" buy such products.'

My sources: Amy Kazmin, LVMH's Sephora probed in Italy over fuelling young girls' skincare obsession, FTWeekend, 28-29 March 2026, p.1. FTWeekend and The Times. Reviews.

See also: Kazmin et al. Beauty industry scrutinised over age-inappropriate teen marketing. FTWeekend. 11-12 April, 2026, p.14. 

London visit February. Waterstones, Foyles, Hatchards & others.

Book image: https://www.amazon.ca/Face-Cultural-Fay-Bound-Alberti/dp/1538766531
 

Previously: 'health' : 'face' : 'child' : 'obsession' : 'social media'

Chocolate for breakfast? What choice in Gaza?

Individual
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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

What am I doing?	Define: 'nutrition', 'evidence-based policy', and  'food security' ...
What are we doing?	Sainsbury's

The first time - ages ago - I noticed chocolate in cereals, I was shocked, incredulous and yet did nothing. The other day I asked to speak to the manager in Sainsbury's and complained (non-personally) and will in other stores.

The irony now is the choice the people can exercise in Gaza - is food being used as a weapon of war?

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/hfss/nestle-withdraws-nutritious-claim-in-row-with-henry-dimbleby-over-kit-kat-cereal/678914.article (subscription required)

Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;0:e000254. doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000254

For Dr Wirnitzer's work please see:

The NURMI-Study (NURMI – Nutrition and Running high Mileage)
https://www.facebook.com/nurmistudy

From Science 2 School: Nachhaltig gesund – bewegt & veggie
https://www.science2.school/

Why the posts about books?

Since I started this blog in April 2006 book tagged posts are numerous; almost 300 in fact.

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=book

As with the previous post "Spare Parts" many are not even a review of the book in question. Use of about here is a misnomer. Currently, there are 51 posts tagged 'review', probably not all text book.

So, why bother? These posts are intended to suggest and possibly show the scope of Hodges' model. The placement of the book within a particular care (knowledge) domain is no accident.

Even though there is often overlap between the domains there is often a primary placement. 

This is were you the reader (learner, teacher, policy maker ...) come in, as the model invites you to interrogate the book's title and often, its very informative (for commercial reasons) subtitle.

Book: Empire of Pain

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN	Empire of Pain
How do governments recognise individual pain? How do governments recognise individual trauma?	A protest sculpture of a bent heroin spoon is placed outside the Purdue Pharma headquarters in Connecticut in 2018 © New York Times / Redux / eyevine c/o FT.

Gapper, J., Deadly Painkillers, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 1-2 May, 2021. p.8.

Online: https://www.ft.com/content/1db7800f-78d5-474e-9b1e-744b1c1a837c

Book cover: https://www.foyles.co.uk/

BBC Radio 4: Start the Week, The opioid crisis and erosion of trust

Two Triangles: Fire and Bubbles

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

	O2 Fuel Heat
	Marketability of Assets Expansionary money and credit Intense speculation

My source:

Plender, J. (2020) Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, 7-8 November. p.7.

Review of -

Levenson, T. (2020) Money for Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism, London: Head of Zeus.

Quinn, W. Turner, J.D. (2020) Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (This post draws upon a triangle in this book explained by Plender).

Multivariate Testing - meet - Multivariate Care ...

aka: socio-technical?


SELF - individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - POPULATION

creativity	MULTIVARIATE TESTING
The human side of data	"Data testing more or less works from a mathematical base using dichotomy and statistical averages. So it trends towards value. but this just promotes uniformity and means it will become a struggle to differentiate yourself,"p.3

[ ... and a way to define what person-centredness is not in a big-data world? ]

Charles Orton-Jones, Uncovering the human side of data, Raconteur, Future of Data, (Distributed with The Times) 26/03/19.

Advertising: The air that we breathe; or don't?

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

Mental Pollution Adbusters	Unbranded Advertising Unbranded advertising of prescription medicines to the public by pharmaceutical companies (Protocol)
Health - Literacy?	Digital Ad# Fraud False / Fake Ads

Hodges' model makes explicit the divide between the public and the public's understanding of science.

Consider here the increased noise in advertising channels since the millennium as the media multiply, in addition to false advertising the rise of fake ads. Fake ads for jobs, drugs, goods and a littering of click-bait. Contactless plastic that touches the deepest oceans. Consumerism has become post-truth as any sense of 'standards' are undermined on several fronts.

The overlaps and increased complexity then become apparent.

^# 'information'?

n.b. If I recall the source for the paper I will add it here!

Leadership Qualities Framework: individuals, teams, boards and systems

I've been catching up on some reading and according to Mike Cooke the (NHS) Leadership Qualities Framework includes vision, emotional intelligence and continued delivery of results. To which he adds:

'We need all three plus the marketing and political skills and some productive leadership skills thrown in. It is about balance in individuals, teams, boards and systems.'

So in Hodges' model then:

individual	systems
teams	boards

There is nothing special about this formulation whether as part of the Leadership Qualities Framework or Hodges' model. Individuals, teams, boards and systems are fundamental building blocks to any attempt to encapsulate and understand the world of local, regional and global health and much more besides.

Mike Cooke, Good Management: On Sizzling Leadership, HSJ, Jan 22, 2009, p.24.