Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on Department of Health Draft Circular Assessments and Statements of Special Education Needs: Procedures within the Education, Health and Social Services
Date: Dec 1988-Mar 1989Reference: SA/SMO/L.197/19Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Health Needs of the Pre-School Child', inter-country seminar, Karachi
Date: Nov 1967Reference: PP/CDW/D.31Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)- Books
Drug information: literature review of needs, resources, and services [by] Mary Jo Reilly for Pharmacy-Related Programs Branch, National Center for Health Services Research and Development / [Mary Jo Reilly].
Reilly, Mary Jo.Date: [1972]- Books
Health care provision under financial constraint : need, demand, and resources / edited by T.B. Binns, Mary Firth.
Date: 1988- Books
Guidelines for rapid participatory appraisals to assess community health needs : a focus on health improvements for low-income urban and rural areas / by Hugh Annett and Susan B. Rifkin.
Annett, HughDate: 1995