healthmatters issue 21
Published Spring 1995CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Women suffer from male stereotypes of heart disease
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Egyptian activists to sue Islamic cleric for call to female genital mutilation
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NHS overheads have doubled, says consultants’ association
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In brief
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A ‘greenprint’ for survival in 2020
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King’s Fund calls for political will and practical steps to tackle health inequalities
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Columns
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News from nowhere
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Goodbye to all that?
In this brand new column, Charles Webster will look back at the important events of 50 years ago. What lessons should today’s policymakers learn from the past?
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Features
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Operating in the public interest?
Waiting times for appointments in many NHS specialties are increasing — yet the same consultants can be seen privately within a few days. John Yates asks why nobody seems interested in solving the problem
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Health off the shelf?
The idea of ‘health promotion’ is becoming central to the way we live. But is it necessarily a benign force? Robin Bunton examines the arguments
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Who gains from health promotion?
Health promotion in primary care does more for the doctors than the patients, says Steve Iliffe
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Bread and real life
Peta Cottee explains why healthy eating on a low income doesn’t always make sense
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A broader horizon for health promotion
Our environment is too important to be left to environmentalists. Public health and health promotion specialists must get involved, argue Andrew Rogers and Desmond Whyms
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Filling the gap in our dental health strategy
Tooth decay in young children has worsened in recent years. There’s an important element missing from our strategy for dental public health, says John Beal
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Harder labour for midwives
Anthea Symonds analyses the events which have lead up to recent calls for strike action by midwives
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A check-up for women’s health
The fourth World Conference on Women is due to be held in September. But many important issues will never reach the agenda, says Mandy Garner
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Reviews
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How did they do that?
Implementing GP fundholding
Howard Glennerster et al
Open University Press, 1994, £12.99 -
Looking backwards to the future
Feasible Socialism: The national Health Service past, present and future
Julian Tudor Hart
Socialist Health Association, 1994 -
Good old days?
Old age and the search for security: an American social history
Carole Haber and Brian Gratton
Indiana University Press, 1994 -
Where now for welfare?
Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?
ed Roger Burrows and Brian Loader
Routledge, 1994, £13.99
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Column
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Carry on nursing
Eric the Heretic defends traditional health service values
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Letters
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Column
