healthmatters issue 40
Special issue: Older adults
Published Spring 2000CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Features
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All those in favour of Hutton?
The Hutton commission’s recent proposals on democratising the NHS are a good start, says Martin Rathfelder
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How national a health service?
That a ‘control freak’ government should adopt a centralising approach to the NHS comes as no surprise – but Labour policy is not quite so simple, argues Richard Lewis
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News
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Still living on promises
Forget the claims of 100 per cent debt cancellation – rich nations are still failing the world’s poor, says Mike Rowson
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Interview
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The tide is not rising
Has the ‘demographic time bomb’ gone off? Hospital specialist Linda Patterson spoke to healthmatters about ageing, the NHS and the evolution of geriatric medicine
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Features
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Unsteadily into the future
Will the fast-changing nature of primary care work to the advantage of older people, or against them? Steve Iliffe assesses an uncertain future
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Any sense in going private?
Recent proposals to use private nursing homes for NHS ‘bed blockers’ haven’t been thought through, says Lorna Easterbrook
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Seize this window of opportunity
The persistence of widespread fuel poverty causes premature illness and death – but help is available, says Trish Brady
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The long term care puzzle
As policy on long term care seems to centre on long term delay, Peter Crome assesses the implications of the royal commission’s report
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Why a few tips won’t go far
Recent anti-smoking campaigns ignore the psychological nature of smoking, say Catherine Sykes and David Marks
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Reviews
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Thinking globally
HEALTH ECOLOGY: health, culture and human-environment interaction
M Honari & T Boleyn (eds)
Routledge, 1999 -
Promoting people power
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH
Jan Smithies & Georgina Webster
Ashgate Publishing, 1998, £49.50 -
New ideas in practices
TRANSFORMING PRIMARY CARE: personal medical services in the new NHS
Richard Lewis & Stephen Gillam (eds)
Kings Fund, 1999, £12.99 -
Whose quality of life is it?
EXPERIENCING CANCER: quality of life in treatment
Kirsten Costain Schou and Jenny Hewison
Open University Press, 1999 -
Dial M for medicine
THE TELEMEDICINE TOOLKIT: A workbook for NHS doctors, nurses and managers
Roy Lilley and John Navein
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000 -
Smoking memos
DENIAL & DELAY: the political history of smoking and health, 1951-1964
David Pollock
Action on Smoking and Health, 1999 -
Not just academic
CHANGE-PROMOTING RESEARCH FOR HEALTH SERVICES
AS St Leger, JP Walsworth-Bell
Open University Press, 1999 -
View from the top
THE POLITICS OF NHS REFORM 1988-87: metaphor or reality?
Chris Ham
King’s Fund, 2000 -
Old, cold and more
UNDERSTANDING OLDER HOMELESS PEOPLE
Maureen Crane
Open University Press, 1999 -
A gender for health
WOMEN AND HEALTH SERVICES
Lesley Doyal (ed)
Open University Press, 1998 -
Maternal mediators
DISABILITY, THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY
Janet Read
Open University Press
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Letters
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Column
