healthmatters issue 56
Published Summer 2004CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Doubts cast on US healthcare model
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UCLH struggles to balance books
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News in brief 1
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News in brief 2
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Will foundations’ patients come before creditors?
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Healthcare standards neglect public health
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Food industry is lobbying hard to head off regulation
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More calls for junk food ads ban
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WebMonitor
Organising activists
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Features
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Still the envy of the world?
The ‘primary care tsar’ paints a rosy picture of the service in his progess report. But it’s not quite that simple, argues GP Ron Singer
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How the NHS risks ignoring the health experts
Local people are often the experts on local health problems – yet the NHS is fast losing their support, warn Stephen Peckham and colleagues
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Time for the NHS to think bigger
The health service can make a major contribution to future health by starting to think – and act – sustainably, says Victoria Read
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Should the voluntary sector be integral to public services?
In a speech last month, Alan Milburn called for the voluntary sector to ‘become part of the mainstream of public service delivery’.
But is he right? healthmatters asked key commentators for their views -
How Ireland kicked butt
Valerie Coghlan describes how Ireland became the first European country to ban smoking in indoor workplaces
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Time to take prevention seriously
As the incidence of breast cancer in the UK continues to rise, a national strategy to tackle its causes is long overdue, argues Laura Potts
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Don’t run from the politics
With public health finally pushed to the top of the policy agenda, arguing for ‘keeping politics out of public health’ misses the point, says Alastair McCapra. Instead, the politicians should be fully engaged
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Interview
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Working together for women and health
Doris Nalishuwa and Josephine Mulumu are health activists in Zambia, where one in five of the population is HIV positive. They spoke to Judith Emanuel about the daily challenges they face
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Feature
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Virtually organised
With the demise of the public meeting, where can health activists get their political debate now? Head for an online forum instead, says Martin Rathfelder
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Columns
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Reviews
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To be taken in small doses
Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry
eds. John Abraham and Helen Lawton Smith
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. £55 -
The only constant is change
Leading change in health and social care
Vivien Martin
London: Routledge, 2003. £17.99 -
Illuminating and wide-ranging
Social policy: an introduction
Ken Blakemore
McGraw-Hill Education, 2003. £16.99 -
Still very relevant
Building bridges: the future of GP education
Edited by Steve Gillam, John Eversley, Janet Snell and Paul Wallace
King’s Fund, 1999. £12.95 -
A well-informed textbook
Public Health for the 21st Century
Judy Orme, Jane Powell, Pat Taylor, Tony Harrison and Melanie Gray (eds)
McGraw-Hill Education, 2003. £19.99 -
An art or a science?
Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions
Susan White and John Stancombe
McGraw-Hill Education, 2003. £18.99
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Richard Holmes is policy officer for Disability Alliance
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Column
