Recent reports from healthmatters magazine
Politics-free public health?
Should public health be evidence-based and politics-free?
No, the aim should be to keep politicians 'fully engaged', says Alastair McCapra
Read more on public health
Read more from issue 56
How Ireland kicked butt
How did they do it?
With the UK smoking ban fast approaching, Valerie Coghlan explains what happened when Ireland went smoke-free
Read more on tobacco
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We are all consumers now
How will greater choice impact on the NHS?
‘Choice and consumer power as the route to social justice not social division’, says Tony Blair. But will it work for the NHS?
Read more on the NHS
Read more from issue 54
Most markets are a mess
Globally, does it really matter?
In much of the world a simple public/private division neither applies nor matters. The issue is how to get any health care at all, says Mike Rowson
Read more on public health
Read more from issue 54
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