healthmatters issue 53
Special issue: Income and health
Published Autumn 2003CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Stormy autumn is forecast for foundation hospital plans
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Maternity reform fails to deliver
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News in brief
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News in brief
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Class system affects child mental health
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Community health staff face bullying at work
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Tobacco toll will rise as girls light up
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WebMonitor
income and health
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Stereotypes still hinder race equality
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Features
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Just a little respect
Health care in the UK is increasingly reliant on nurses recruited abroad – but too often their work goes unappreciated. John Aggergaard Larsen and Helen Allan report
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Power to the people
The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health plans to put patients at the heart of the NHS decisionmaking process, explains Laura McMurtrie
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The art of well-being
Can the creative arts prevent or cure mental illness? Despite increasing interest there is still very little evidence available, say Jamie Cowling and Emily Keaney
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Impoverished thinking
There is a missing link in government policy between benefit levels and public health. Paul Nicolson calls for some joined-up thinking
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Nasty, brutish and short—or healthy, wealthy and long?
Are Labour’s policies on wealth redistribution, employment and child poverty having any effect on health inequality in Britain? Richard Mitchell and colleagues examine the impact so far
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Working for patients – on unhealthy pay
Low pay is harming the health of contracted-out staff in the NHS. But a broad-based community campaign has succeeded in winning improvements for east London workers, says Catherine Howarth
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Rights advice in the right place
Over the past 20 years provision of benefits advice in healthcare settings has moved into the mainstream. Clive Martin explains why
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Poor children, poorly adults
Ending child poverty is the way to begin to narrow health inequality, argues Claire Kober
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Columns
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Reviews
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Problem genes
Genetics and Society. An introduction
Alison Pilnick
Open University Press, 2002. £16.99 -
A gender for change
This Side of Doctoring: reflections from women in medicine
Eliza Lo Chin (editor)
Sage Publications, 2002. £23.00 -
Get into groups…
Studying Nursing using Problem-based and Enquiry-based Learning
Bob Price
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. £16.99 -
Spin bowlers
They’ve had a good innings – can the NHS cope with an ageing population?
John Grimley Evans, Stephen Pollard, Karol Sikora, Roger Williams
Civitas, 2003. £5.95 -
It helps to understand
Schizophrenia: a very short introduction
Christopher Frith and Eve Johnstone
Oxford University Press, 2003. £6.99 -
A policy labyrinth
Out of the Maze: reaching and supporting Londoners with severe mental health
problems
Angela Greatley with Richard Ford
Kings Fund/Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2002. £10.00
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Angela Mawle is chief executive of the UK Public Health Association
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