healthmatters issue 17
Published Spring 1994CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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NHS internal market is an ‘uncontrolled monster’
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Competition for survival in the game of AIDS Monopoly
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In brief
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Pioneering essential drugs policy is under threat in Bangladesh
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Research to investigate international debt and health
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Human gene patents won’t go ahead
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Out-of-hours medical care may be commercialised
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Confusion over the place of health promotion
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Features
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New moves in the battle of the bottle
New controls on baby milk marketing may help reverse falling rates of breast feeding. Patti Rundall reports
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’Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven’t committed̵
So wrote Anthony Powell in his novel Temporary Kings — and his words ring true in the wake of revelations that some NHS patients are being denied treatment solely on grounds of age. Here, John Brazier, Paula Jones and Adam Darkins examine aspects of the relationship between elderly people and health care
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‘Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven’t committed̵
So wrote Anthony Powell in his novel Temporary Kings — and his words ring true in the wake of revelations that some NHS patients are being denied treatment solely on grounds of age. Here, John Brazier, Paula Jones and Adam Darkins examine aspects of the
relationship between elderly people and health care -
’Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven’t committed̵
So wrote Anthony Powell in his novel Temporary Kings — and his words ring true in the wake of revelations that some NHS patients are being denied treatment solely on grounds of age. Here, John Brazier, Paula Jones and Adam Darkins examine aspects of the relationship between elderly people and health care
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Too casual by half
The government says the NHS should ‘set an example to other employers’ in creating a healthy workplace. Yet new ‘flexible’ employment practices in the health service will create a low paid, casualised — and unhealthy — labour force, warns Bob Abberley
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What do patients want?
If users, not civil servants, had drawn up the Patient’s Charter, how would it be different? Christine Hogg and Jane Cowl investigated
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A choice of heating or eating
A community-led housing project in Glasgow runs counter to the usual ‘lifestyle’ solutions to ill health. Shona Duncan reports
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I am a one in twelve
One in twelve women in the UK will develop breast cancer, and almost everyone’s lives will be touched by it at some time. Yet for many cancer, and especially breast cancer, remains a source of fear and shame.
Here Joyce Wadler talks to Mandy Garner about her own experience of cancer, and why she wrote a book about it -
Working for healthy workplaces
Black and ethnic minority workers are at particular risk of work-related ill health, says Allan Swann
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Through the mill of Dutch health care reform
Dutch Labour party minister Hans Simons has left office, apparently defeated in his attempt to introduce ‘managed competition’. Now health care in the Netherlands faces an uncertain future. Marja Gastelaars reports
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Growing up sustainable
Far from being a goal to strive for, uncontrolled economic growth may now present the greatest risk to the health of our children. Hugh Crombie explains
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Review
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Herding cats in the NHS
CONTROLLING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION IN THE NHS
Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt
Open University Press, 1994, £12.99
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Obituary
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Reviews
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Local and vocal!
CHANGES IN THE NHS: WHO IS LISTENING TO LOCAL VOICES?
Sandra Purnell, Jane Jones and Sandra Horrie -
Dwelling on good health
HEALTH, HOUSING AND SOCIAL POLICY: HOMES FOR HEALTH OR WEALTH
Lorna Arblaster and Murray Hawton
Socialist Health Association, 1993
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Columns
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Stop the world - I want to retire!
Life on the front line of health care is beginning to take its toll on Rosa Hudson
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Keep young and beautiful...
Eric the Heretic fearlessly speaks the truth on rational rationing
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Letters
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Column
