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  • Article

Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

  • Article

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.

  • 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.

  • In pictures

The friendly societies and healthcare

For a couple of centuries, friendly societies plugged the healthcare gap between expensive private care and charitable institutions for many thousands of people in the UK.

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  • Russian public health notice / C. Noel Davis, Commissioner of PublicHealth.
  • Portrait of A.B. Hill, 1854-1932. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1911-1912. Photograph in the possession of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
  • A list of facts about AIDS by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Portrait of A. Hill, 1826-1922. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health 1886-1888. From the photograph in the Society. Medical Officer of Health of the City of Birmingham 1872-1903.
  • Portrait of W.G. Savage. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
  • A smiling healthy baby: child health care in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • Portrait of Edward Seaton; president of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1897-1898
  • Portrait of Charles Sanders. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1917-18. From a photograph in the Society. First whole time medical officer of health of West Ham 1887 to 1924.
  • E.W., M.D., D.Sc., Hope. President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1912-13. From the photograph in the Society.
  • Sir James Barr, Photograph in the possession of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
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  • Workshop

Humour and Peril in Public Health Posters

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  • Seminar

Bringing Health Advice to a Wider Public

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Part of Exploring Research

  • Discussion

Antimicrobial Resistance

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Part of The Evidence

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