healthmatters issue 32
Special issue: Disability
Published Winter 1997/8CONTENTS
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Editorials
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News
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Debate begins on Labour’s health strategy
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NHS trusts increasingly turn to private earnings
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Health costs of cars should be paid by the drivers
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In brief
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Nursing recruitment crisis
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Violence against women has become a global public health problem
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Rise in prescription fees intensifies the charges debate
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Poor management is a key health issue, say NHS staff
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Columns
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News from nowhere
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Launching the new NHS – on a tight budget
Preparing for the new health service in 1948 was an uphill struggle – and even organising the publicity met with opposition, explains Charles Webster
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Interview
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Improving health by any means possible
Britain’s first minister for public health, Tessa Jowell, spoke exclusively to healthmatters on the government’s strategy for public health
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Features
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A rose by any other name…
The first barrier to achieving equality for disabled people is not understanding where the disability comes from, says Lorraine Gradwell
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Strain your ears: you might hear something
It’s funny how people with perfectly good hearing can’t seem to listen to the ideas of deaf people, says Mark Heaton
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New party, old agenda?
Labour has underestimated the political significance of the disability movement, argues David Pilgrim
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Living is about more than bed and breakfast
Being able to do what other people do after they have got up is what independent living is all about, Frances Hasler explains
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A disability is taxing enough
Welfare reform should be concentrating on increasing
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Good therapy requires good communication
Sally Cook reports on the National Centre for Mental Health and Deafness, a pioneering and culturally-specific mental health service
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Breaking down barriers
David Ackroyd and Judith Emanuel share their experiences in developing and consulting on accessibility guidelines for the NHS
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A harder walk to freedom
Emerging from the apartheid era, South Africa is a country which takes equal rights very seriously indeed. Shelley Barry and Sue Philpott explain how its disability strategy has become a model for the world
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Reviews
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Beyond coherence
BEYOND RESTRUCTURING
Sholom Glouberman (ed)
King’s Fund, 1996, £17.50 -
Heroines just say no
Disabled Parents: Dispelling the Myths
Michele Wates
Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 1997 -
Disabled voices, still alive
FIGHTING FOR WHAT WE’VE GOT: living with disability in Kirklees
Ian Clayton (ed)
Yorkshire Arts Circus, 1996, £5.95 -
Good for brief spells
STEDMAN’S CONCISE MEDICAL & ALLIED HEALTH DICTIONARY
3rd Edn
Williams & Wilkins, 1997, £15.95 -
Post-period pains
REINTERPRETING MENOPAUSE: Cultural and Philososphical Issues
Komesaroff P, Rothfield P, Daly J (eds)
Routledge, 1997, £13.99 -
Talking about abuse
THE PROTECTOR’S HANDBOOK: reducing the risk of child sexual abuse and helping children recover
Gerrilyn Smith
The Women’s Press, 1995, £6.99 -
Are nurses different?
Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
Anne Marie Rafferty, Jane Robinson and Ruth Elkan (eds)
Routledge 1997, £14.99 -
Good choice
Evidence-based patient choice
Tony Hope
King’s Fund, 1996
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Column
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Not like on the telly
Michele Hanson has spent longer in casualty than is good for her
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Letters
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Column
