healthmatters issue 48
Published Summer 2002CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Features
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Can’t pay, won’t pay
Gordon Brown has ruled out new NHS charges – so why not scrap the existing ones too, asks Philip McLeish
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Let 1,000 pilots bloom
Looming GP shortages mean we will have to think differently about the primary care professionals we need, say Rebecca Rosen and Diane Gray
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Gambling with our health
Government moves to loosen controls on gambling will have knock-on effects for public health, warns Mark Griffiths
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Inequalities in health: whose baby?
The government wants the fledgling primary care trusts to take responsibility for meeting targets to reduce health inequalities. But it makes more sense for local authorities to take the lead, argues Fiona Campbell
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Losers in the transfer market
John Lister explains why the GMB is opposed to the government’s retention of employment policy for NHS staff affected by PFI deals
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The health cost of free trade
Global ‘free trade’ rules threaten the integrity of basic services such as health and water – and the General Agreement on Trade in Services should come with its own health warning, says John Hilary
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Testing times ahead
Rapid developments in genetics herald a ‘revolution’ in medicine, and new dilemmas for the NHS. As the government drafts its green paper on genetics, David King examines the key issues it must address
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A globe gasping for breath
Anti-smoking measures in the West mean tobacco companies are looking elsewhere for profits, reports Darryl Cowley
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The real point now is prevention
The recent commons select committee report on drugs is a good start – but could go further, says Geof Rayner
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Reviews
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Return of a classic case
THE CEREMONIAL ORDER OF THE CLINIC
PM Strong (edited by Robert Dingwall)
Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2001, £45 -
Counselling and despair
THE USE OF COUNSELLING SKILLS IN THE EMERGENCY SERVICES
Angela Hetherington
Open University Press, 2001 -
Great shakes!
USING RESEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTH PROMOTION
Edited by Sandy Oliver and Greet Peersman
Open University Press, 2001, £16.99 -
The costs of mental illness
THE ECONOMICS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Ruth Williams and D Doessel
Ashgate, 2001, £45 -
Beyond the bananas
THE BEAT GOES ON
Adele Minchin
The Women’s Press, 2001, £5.99 -
Never knowingly undersold
ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN HEALTH CARE
Edited by Mike Drummond and Alastair McGuire
Oxford University Press, 2001, £26.50 -
And how would you like to pay?
FUNDING HEALTH CARE: OPTIONS FOR EUROPE
Edited by Elias Mossialos, Anna Dixon, Josep Figueras and Joe Kutzin
Open University Press, 2002, £22.50 -
Calling time on booze and fags
ADDICTION: FROM BIOLOGY TO DRUG POLICY
Avram Goldstein
Oxford University Press, 2001, £10.95 -
Careful caring
GENDER, HEALTH AND HEALING: the public/private divide
Edited by Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams
Routledge, 2001, £18.99
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Letters
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