healthmatters issue 27
Published Autumn 1996CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Column
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Where is Labour’s vision for the NHS of 1997?
In 1945, Labour’s modernising and egalitarian vision for a National Health Service helped to win the election. In 1997 the vision seems to have faded badly, says Charles Webster
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Features
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Delivering a disturbing judgement
Two recent court cases have raised fundamental questions about the rights of women in labour, reports Julie Stone
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Nurses up, managers down?
What’s happening to nurses? The Radical Statistics Health Group have the latest figures
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Neglected: the health of the older nation
The Health of the Nation strategy for England sets few targets for older people — and the result may be to seriously disadvantage their access to health care. Bill Bytheway explains why
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Caught in a contradiction
The conflicting pressures of national policies and local fundholders have created a ‘double bind’ for mental health care services, says Frank Ledwith
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Bureaucrats at your bedside
Like other American imports, managed care is being sold to Europe as the answer to problems we didn’t know we had. Geof Rayner examines the hard evidence behind the hype
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Clean up or cough up
As the nation’s use of health services keeps on rising, Richard Lawson asks why we don’t take prevention more seriously—and proposes a radical alternative to the Health of the Nation
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More than a matter of belief
Psychological explanations of health beliefs and health behaviours may help us to understand the world—but can they help us to change it? Philip Banyard thinks not
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Time to be tough on the causes of work hazards
Existing law on occupational health and safety is often inadequate and poorly enforced, says Hugh MacGrillen — and it’s time for a fresh government to take a fresh look at the issues
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Nurturing will be needed for 1,000 flowers to bloom
The government’s white paper Choice and opportunity promises new flexibility and local innovation. Katy Gardner wonders whether general practices have any energy left to innovate with
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No easy walk to health
The end of apartheid has brought much optimism to South Africa, yet the challenge of improving the health of the population is almost overwhelming. Rachael Dixey reports
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Reviews
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Say one thing, do another
Adolescent health: the role of individual differences
Patrick Heaven
Routledge, 1996, £14.99 -
Do women ‘do death better’?
Lifting the taboo: women, death and dying
Sally Cline
Little, Brown & Co, 1995, £18.99 -
Choc horror
Why women need chocolate
Debra Waterhouse
Vermilion, 1995, £7.99 -
Can HP be PC?
The Sociology of health promotion: critical analyses of lifestyle, consumption and risk
Robin Bunton, Sarah Nettleton, Roger Burrows (eds) Routledge, 1995, £13.99 -
Five models, no muddle
PREDICTING HEALTH BEHAVIOUR
Connor M, Norman P (eds)
Open University Press, 1995, £14.99
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Letters
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