healthmatters issue 52
Published Summer 2003CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Interview
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Fighting for the tooth
The sugar industry is up in arms over new WHO dietary guidelines. Steve Iliffe asked Aubrey Sheiham to assess the industry’s arguments
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Features
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Rocking the foundations
The government’s proposals for foundation trusts will promote inequality and fragmentation in the NHS, and are a step on the road to a full-blown health care market, warns Dave Prentis
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Time to give a little
The NHS can’t build healthy communities – but it could stimulate mutual caring and giving through timebanks. Paul Hodgkin explains
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Eating badly for two
The UK has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe – but many pregnant teenagers have a diet that is unhealthy for them and their babies.
Helen Burchett and Annie Seeley explain why nutrition for pregnant teenagers should be a public health priority -
The politics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Why is it that the diagnosis of ADHD among boys has risen so dramatically in Western societies? Sami Timimi suggests that the answer is as likely to be cultural and political as medical
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Untwisting the story of DNA
Fifty years after the discovery of DNA, David King looks at how genetic knowledge has been used to control and exploit natural processes — including human reproduction — for profit
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Give us the tools…
Imagine earning £25 a month 14 years after qualifying as a health worker, being the only trained member of staff for a population of 4,741 people, with a budget of £50 a month in an area with no vehicles or roads.
This is the situation of Boniface Kaira. Despite a lack of books, educational opportunities, or other professionals nearby he has a clear vision of what needs to be done.
He challenges his government, international aid agencies and the public health movement to enable Tapo, the community he serves, to be given the power and capacity to meet its own needs. -
What’s IT to be?
The government has committed a huge amount of money to its new NHS information and communication technologies plan. Jamie Bend wonders whether it will fare any better than previous ill-fated NHS IT projects
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Columns
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Reviews
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Taking the long view
Reducing Inequalities in Health: a European perspective
Johan Mackenbach and Martijntje Bakker
Routledge 2002. £18.99 -
Food for thought
Food With Latitude: a report exploring food project links across the North-South divide
Anna Watson and Sally Hiscock
Sustain, 2002. £20.00 -
Sexist healing?
Well Women: the gendered nature of health care provision
Anne Morris and Susan Nott (eds)
Ashgate Publishing, 2002. £47.50 -
State of the nations
Primary Care in the UK
Stephen Peckham and Mark Exworthy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. £17.99 -
Why pay more?
Public-Private Relations in Health Care
Justin Keen, Donald Light and Nicholas Mays
Kings Fund, 2001. £14.99 -
Credit where it’s due
Assessment of Prior Learning: a practitioner’s guide
Malcolm Day
Nelson Thornes, 2002. £14.00
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Jeanette Longfield is director of Sustain
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