healthmatters issue 37
Published Summer 1999CONTENTS
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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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Time to breach the contract
GPs’ contracts have altered little since 1913, but the advent of PCGs may change all that, says Charles Webster
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Features
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The heart of the matter
The government’s new public health white paper sets tough new targets to prevent coronary disease and other major killers – but does it address the income inequality at the heart of the health divide? Wendy Moore reports
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But what role for local government?
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The long road to a healthy north
Official acknowledgement of Scotland’s appalling health record and widening health inequality should focus the minds of the new Scottish Parliament, says Dick Barbor-Might
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Crimes and misdiagnoses
Crime has serious health impacts, both direct and indirect. But, say Jane Keithley and Fred Robinson, health practitioners are failing to identify the victims of crime. So how should the NHS respond?
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Looking for a common interest
Professions, pharmaceutical companies and government are courting user groups as never before. But this may weaken the user movement rather than strengthen it, warns Christine Hogg
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Win some, lose some
Have video games damaged the health of a generation? Mark Griffiths sifts the evidence on health impact
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Why arrest isn’t a cure for drugs
Policy is shifting from punishing to treating drug users – but little will change while drug use remains a criminal issue, argues Steve Rolles
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A little information may be a little pointless
Labour’s health policy is placing increasing emphasis on promoting ‘self care’. But providing information on common ailments isn’t enough, say Timothy Milewa and Michael Calnan
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Still hungry for change
Twelve years of war seems to have changed little for poor people in El Salvador. Jacqui Webster reports on food and health projects being developed in response to chronic unemployment and food shortages
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Reviews
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Why do people go to the doctors?
DEMANDING PATIENTS? Analysing the use of primary care
Anne Rogers, Karen Hassell, Gerry Nicolaas
Open University Press 1998, £16.99 -
New tech, old attitudes
ENABLING TECHNOLOGY: disabled people, work and new technology
Alan Roulestone
Open University Press, 1998, £14.99 -
Stuff your attitudes
BIGGER THAN THE SKY: disabled women on parenting
Michele Wates and Rowen Jade (eds)
The Women’s Press, 1999, £8.99 -
Overvalued but not yet over here
Managed Health Care
Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner
Open University Press, 1998, £16.99 -
Working out the sum of the parts
WORKING WHOLE SYSTEMS: putting theory into practice in organisations
J Pratt, P Gordon, D Plamping
King’s Fund, 1999, £9.95 -
Shaking stereotypes
Parkinson’s Disease
Harvey Sagar
Vermillion, 1991, £7.99 -
Too businesslike by half
The NHS: Myth, Monster or Service? Action Learning in Hospital
Nelson Coghill and James Stewart
The Revans Press, Salford, 1998 -
The moral maybes
ETHICS AND VALUES IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
Souzy Dracopoulou (ed)
Routledge, 1998 -
Why are we the ME generation
KNOWING ME: women speak about myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome
Caeia March (ed)
The Women’s Press, 1998, £8.99
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Letters
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