Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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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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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
Catalogue
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Ethical issues in women's healthcare : practice and policy / edited by Lori d'Agincourt-Canning, Carolyn Ells.
Date: [2019]- Books
Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
The public-private health care state : essays on the history of American health care policy / Rosemary Stevens.
Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Burdens of war : creating the United States veterans health system / Jessica L. Adler.
Adler, Jessica L., 1978-Date: 2017- Books
Financing vaccines in the 21st century : assuring access and availability / Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2004], ©2004