healthmatters issue 18
Special issue: Sex education
Published Summer 1994CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Features
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Clearing the air on asthma
It will take determined political action to tackle the problem of childhood asthma, says Steve Mumby
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Down with markets... maybe
Labour’s consultative document on health policy doesn’t come clean on the hard questions, says Steve Iliffe
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And up with democracy... probably
Tony Jewell finds Labour is strong on some traditional commitments — but seems to have forgotten about others
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Interviews
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Let’s talk about sex
Teachers are in the firing line if parents — and politicians — don’t like the way they teach pupils about sex, yet nobody else wants the job. Five teachers talked to Judith Emanuel
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Don’t you know that it’s different for girls?
Who takes the main responsibility for sex education at home? Judith Emanuel talked with six mothers about pregnancy, partners and ‘proper words’
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Features
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Honest communication is the key
Open information and a better example from adults would help promote the sexual health of young people, argues Ruth Abraham
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A doctor writes
Jane Harvey gives the view from the family planning clinic
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Accentuate the positive
Julian Cohen offers a personal prescription for a self-confident and moral — but not moralistic — approach to sex education
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Tracey’s tale
Sex education should start young and be relevant, says Tracey Pritchard. She knows, because she’s been there
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Backing your own basics
The rise of religious fundamentalism is hindering efforts to advise and empower young people, especially young women, say Southall Black Sisters
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Review
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Features
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Different ways to be
Being a woman with a disability may mean not living up to other people’s images of perfection — or your own. Mandy Garner reports
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Completely healthy, utterly unattainable?
The WHO definition of health frees us from a narrow focus on disease, offering a positive vision of health. Or does it? Simon Dyson begs to differ
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Big plans, little time
South Africa’s new government faces high expectations and major problems in rebuilding health services, says Yogan Pillay
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Reviews
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Advice from an ex-aunt
Straight Talk: how to handle sex
Jane Butterworth
Pan Macmillan, 1993, £3.50 -
Sex and drugs and feeling whole
Love Life and Live it: a health education resource
Merseyside Youth Association, 1994 -
A piece of the jigsaw
EVALUATING THE NHS REFORMS
Ed Ray Robinson and Julian Le Grand
King’s Fund Institute, 1994 -
Boy’s talk
Living with a willy: the inside story
Nick Fisher
Pan Macmillan, 1994, £3.50 -
A cure for apoplexy
Tobacco in history: the cultures of dependence
Jordan Goodman
Routledge, 1993 -
Prophets at a loss
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
C Morgan and S Murgatroyd
Open University Press, 1994
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Column
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The ME generation
If you’re ill, see a doctor— and if you’re not then keep quiet, says Eric
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Letters
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Column
