healthmatters issue 1
Published Summer 1989CONTENTS
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Column
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The great egg debate: was the Left off on the wrong scent?
By smelling blue blood all over the great egg debate, the Left ended up missing an opportunity to intervene positively, says Martin Jacques in this first healthmatters column open to guest writers
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Features
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What role now for CHCs?
Where do community health councils go from here? Fedelma Winkler, organiser for the Greater London Association of CHCs, talks to healthmatters
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The end of an era?
The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, the last NHS hospital guaranteeing women treatment in an all-women environment, has now introduced male consultants. But all is not yet lost…
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Public health: a giant awakes?
There has been a recent reawakening of support for the ideals of public health, but the government remains, as yet, unmoved, says Daloni Carlisle
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The sewage hits the fan
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1999 — look back in anger
What could the future hold for the NHS if public opinion is unable to alter the course of the white paper? David Hardy gazes into his crystal ball
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There is an alternative...
Will the momentum of the white paper mean all opposition is swept aside? healthmatters reports on a nation-wide campaign that has just been launched in support of the NHS
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Life in the fast lane
Acute sector healthcare is under continual pressure to introduce fast-stream initiatives. But at what cost, asks Teresa Stratford
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A quarterpounder with cheese, french fries and... a pill?
Worried about cholesterol? Forget diet — the drug companies have plans. James Erlichman reports
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Getting back to normal?
Demoralised by the bureaucratic approach to the county’s child abuse controversy, many people in Cleveland are yearning to ‘get back to normal’. But the chance to develop a new approach to male violence could be lost, says Janis Bright
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Fighting for health
Tigray, the northernmost province of Ethiopia, is ravaged by famine and war. Caroline Sargent reports on the task facing health workers
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Bringing the world stage a little nearer home
The government is a signatory to the World Health Organisation’s Health for All strategy. Trade unions should capitalise on this to consolidate their health promotion role, say Frances O’Grady and Belinda Pratten
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Prevention is better than cure
Simon Pickvance takes a radical look at occupational health
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Column
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Identity crisis: who am I?
Rosa Hudson, healthmatters’ doctor at large, takes a close look at the ills of the inner city
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News
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Reviews
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The prime of its life
A QUESTION OF CARE: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Davidson N
Michael Joseph, £6.95
A NEW KIND OF DOCTOR: THE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS PART IN THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY
Julian Tudor Hart
Merlin, £12.95 -
Eaten in a slurry
FAST FOOD FACTS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY UGLY OF FAST FOODS
Tim Lobstein
Camden Press, £4.95
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Columns
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Putting health on the map
Maddy Halliday, co-ordinator of Healthy Sheffield 2000, talks to healthmatters about the planning the public doesn’t see
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What’s so special about dying?
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