healthmatters issue 5
Published Autumn 1990CONTENTS
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Features
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Tripe and bondage
Lee Adams takes sides in the health promotion debate
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Small is beautiful
Closing small maternity units is not what women want, says Christine Gowdridge
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Towards a more sensitive service
Mental health services have not responded to the needs of a multiracial community, says Melba Wilson. Black people with mental health problems need a caring, not a controlling response
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Checking out retail health
Margaret Sharky has been looking into the hazards of life on the shopfloor
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A green smoke screen
Profits still come before health, even if the image is eco-friendly, warns Ged Moran
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The best we can offer?
Screening tests and health checks are being promoted as the answers to all our ills. But are the benefits straightforward? Dawn Whittaker examines the record of the breast screening programme
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Therapy sans frontières?
Ken Shifrin asks whether complementary medicine can survive in the EC
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Keep taking the garlic
Two cloves a day keeps the doctor away, claims David Roser. But what exactly does garlic do — apart from the obvious?
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Stemming the ‘second wave’
Government efforts to extend privatisation to NHS labs should be vigorously resisted, says John Chowcat
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Absorbing issues…
Despite recent concerns over tampon safety, it’s still only a minority of women who are aware of the dangers, warns Gill de Lacy Costello
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USSR: Perestroika hits the health service
Escalating medical costs and ever ageing populations are forcing healthcare systems around the world into a period of transition. Lydia Novak explains the Soviet reforms — and finds surprising parallels with the British experience
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Hope in a heartless world
A new project to enable homeless children to take greater control over their lives and health is to be launched soon. Mandy Garner reports
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Reviews
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Sick brick
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND CONTROL
London Hazards Centre, £4.50 -
Against despair
INFERTILITY SERVICES: A DESPERATE CASE
Greater London Association Of Community Health Councils, London
Naomi Pfeffer and Alison Quick. -
Labour in the capital
POWER, POLITICS AND PREGNANCY
Health Rights, £3.95.
Belinda Pratten
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