healthmatters issue 22
Published Summer 1995CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Teenage smoking is double government target levels
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Campaign news: action for global health
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Pioneering partnership between health authority and local council will help single homeless people
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In brief
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Report shows the impact on health of war in Turkey’s Kurdish region
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Bus and lorry drivers are heading for poor health
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Column
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News
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Column
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The battle for the health centre
With all the talk of a primary care led NHS, it is easy to take the existence of the health centre for granted. But it was not always so, explains Charles Webster
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Features
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What’s left of Labour’s NHS?
Is Labour’s health policy the work of wild-eyed radicals or just another example of New Labour Blurrism? And can Labour win over the activists as well as the administrators? Wendy Moore finds out
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Today’s docs are buying it all
Even if you don’t like fundholding, there’s a lot to be said for total purchasing, says Uli Freudenstein
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Radicalism and compromise
The NHS may be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Labour’s post-war achievements, but the history of its creation is marked by expedience and compromise. And we are still living with the results of compromises made 50 years ago, argues Steve Iliffe
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From private shame to public campaign
The medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry have between them created a ‘breast cancer industry’ which neglects the needs of women themselves, argue Laura Potts and Mary Twomey
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An injection of doubt is required
The effectiveness of vaccination is uncertain and its safety unproven, claims Magda Taylor
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Opposition is sadly myth-led
Michael Corr sets out the case in favour of routine childhood vaccination
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Column
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SOS: Save our sanity, salary our service!
An acute shortage of doctors is threatening Rosa’s practice—and her stress level
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Feature
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Making waves over pollution
The long, hot summer has propelled the issue of environmental pollution rapidly up the political agenda. Simon Bullock calls for concerted action to make sustainable development a central aim of government policy
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Reviews
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A stress on healthy behaviour
Social psychology and health
W & MS Stroebe
Open University Press, 1994, £12.99 -
Conflicting interests in practice
Practitioners and Practices
Julian Pratt
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1995, £16.50 -
Woman-centred reports
Reproductive healthmatters
ed Marge Berer
Published twice yearly. Details: 0171-242 8686 -
Changing ‘the change’
The Menopause Industry
Sandra Coney
The Women’s Press, 1995 -
Medics behaving badly
The incompetent doctor: behind closed doors
Marilynn M Rosenthal
Open University Press 1995, £12.99 -
Wards and all
Handle With Care: a year in the life of twelve nurses
Liane Jones
Macmillan, 1995, £14.99 -
Cut it out!
Private eye, heart amd hip: surgical consultants, the NHS and private medicine
John Yates
Churchill Livingstone, 1995, £14.95
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Column
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The great shopping cure
Eric is definitely on the same wavelength as the government’s latest hotline scheme
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Letters
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Column
