healthmatters issue 15
Published Autumn 1993CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Water metering to benefit the well off
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Sexual health care by GPs limited by lack of choice and condoms
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New campaign to stub out EC tobacco subsidies
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Community care: chartering the way ahead
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Directors speak up for public health
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In brief
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Slaving for a living
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Alcohol industry avoids confronting its drink problem
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Features
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Who killed Harry Elphick?
Whose fault is it when a middle-aged smoker is refused heart surgery? Steve Iliffe reports from the ethical front line
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Holding on while letting go
The Jenkins/Langlands review of health service management, now sitting on the minister’s desk, could herald new turmoil in the NHS. Steve Harrison and Margaret Goose explain
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Low tax means no brass
As the government’s economic problems deepen, the question of how health services should be paid for is back on the political agenda. Allyson Pollock examines ‘expert opinion’ on the issue
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Interview
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Clinton’s New Deal for a healthier America
President Clinton’s health care reform programme
is gathering momentum, but faces powerful vested interests. Victor Sidel spoke to Steve Iliffe about the prospects for reform
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Features
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The right medicine for nursing?
Nursing is changing fast, and runs the risk of fragmenting into a thousand allied professions, says Barry Clifton
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Isn’t it time you changed your make-up?
Rapid advances in genetics promise startling new solutions to problems we never knew we had - and the tendency is to reduce complex social issues to individual problems with a technical fix, warns Paul Martin
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Column
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The best of a bad job
There’s a new scheme to pay GPs for health promotion work. Rosa Hudson isn’t enthusiastic
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Features
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Looking back on the LA story
What lessons for the future can local authorities learn from their experience of health
promotion, asks Martin King -
Disempowering the doctors
The power and status of consultants is threatened by developments within the profession itself, as well as by the government’s changes to the NHS. David Gladstone offers a historical perspective
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Health for all in a divided land
Israel has committed itself to Health for All, but faces major political and practical hurdles in reducing health inequalities. Jayne Thompson reports
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Reviews
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Brief looks at the NHS
PUBLIC LAW AND HEALTH SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY
Diane Longley
Open University Press, 1993 -
Ideas from experience
YOU AND CARING: AN ACTION PLAN FOR CARING AT HOME
Penny Mares
King’s Fund Centre, 1992, £5.50 -
Homeless, alone too
HOMELESSNESS, HEALTH CARE AND WELFARE PROVISION
Kevin Fisher & John Collins (eds)
Routledge, 1993, £12.99 -
Lowering the safety net
MARKETS AND MANAGERS: NEW ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE
Peter Taylor-Gooby & Robyn Lawson (eds)
Open University Press, 1993, £12.99 -
Reclaim the knife
ESSAYS ON WOMEN, MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Ann Oakley
Edinburgh University Press, 1993, £14.95 -
Calling women to heal
WOMEN HEALERS THROUGH HISTORY
Elisabeth Brooke
Women’s Press, 1993, £7.99 -
Private choices in public
GOING PRIVATE: WHY PEOPLE PAY FOR THEIR HEALTH CARE
Michael Calnan, Sarah Cant and Jonathan Gabe
Open University Press, 1993, £10.99 -
An unbearable lightness
WOMANSIZE: THE TYRANNY OF SLENDERNESS
Kim Chernin
The Women’s Press, 1993, £7.99
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Letters
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Column
