healthmatters issue 44
Published Spring 2001CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Features
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Right a bit more
Steve Harrison assesses Labour’s proclaimed ‘third way’ in health policy and finds that the strategy consists of little more than old – and right wing – policies dressed up in new clothing
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Let us get on with it
Increased surveillance and regulation has marked Labour’s approach to improving NHS standards – but now the regulators must be allowed to do the job, says Linda Patterson
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Time for Labour to deliver: public health
Labour’s first term was strong on public health and environmental rhetoric, but weak on action. Now it has another chance to be bold – so John Nicholson and Charles Secrett set out what’s on the agenda
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Time for Labour to deliver: environment
Labour’s first term was strong on public health and environmental rhetoric, but weak on action. Now it has another chance to be bold – so John Nicholson and Charles Secrett set out what’s on the agenda
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The price is still not right
Although pharmaceutical companies have lowered the price of many drugs for developing countries, generic equivalents remain cheaper – but may be impossible to import, explains Kevin Watkins
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Strengthening service users
How should the interests and views of the users of the health service be represented at national level? Christine Hogg examines the issues
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Today’s lesson: get munching!
One packet of crisps isn’t going to do any harm – but should schools be encouraging the systematic manipulation of children’s diets in order to afford basic materials? Geof Rayner investigates
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Working for patients – and populations too
The scope of primary care is changing – and new primary care organisations are developing local action plans for health. Stephen Peckham and Margaret Godel set out a research agenda
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US wrongs women’s rights
Access to safe abortion and advice around the world has recently become harder, reports Tim Frasca
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Reviews
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Simplicity for complex problems
UNLOCKING THE FUTURE: Developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities
Barbara McIntosh and Andrea Whittaker (eds)
King’s Fund, 2000, £15.99 -
FEEL-GOOD FOOD: a guide to intuitive eating
Susie Miller and Karen Knowler
Women’s Press, 2000, £8.99 -
1066 and all that
A CHRONOLOGY OF STATE MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND RELATED SERVICES IN BRITAIN, 1066-1999
Michael D Warren
Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 2000, £15.00 -
Delving a bit deeper
POWER GAMES: confronting hurtful behaviour and transforming our own
Kay Douglas and Kim McGregor
Women’s Press, 2001, £8.99 -
Facts, but no feelings
REGULATING THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
David Taylor and Andrew Tucker
King’s Fund, 2000, £7.99 -
Equal to the task
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INEQUALITIES
Hilary Graham (ed)
Open University Press, 2000, £17.99 -
Analysis but no politics
POVERTY IN PLENTY: a human development report for the UK
Edited by Jane Seymour for UNED-UK
Earthscan, £14.95 -
Young, pregnant, doing OK
TOUGH CHOICES: Young women talk about pregnancy
Alison Hadley (editor)
The Women’s Press, 1999, £4.99 -
Move from principles to practice
SELF-ADVOCACY IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: the politics of resilience
Dan Goodley
Open University Press, 2000, £18.99 -
Not always black and white in practice
AN AMBULANCE OF THE WRONG COLOUR: health professionals, human rights and ethics in South Africa
Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Jeanelle de Gruchy and Leslie London
University of Cape Town Press, 1999, £14.50
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Letters
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