Stories
- Article
Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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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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How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Council of Europe: Public Health Committee Working Party on the Organisation of Preventive Services in Mental Illness
Date: 1973-1977Reference: PP/RKF/E.8Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
Theory, practice, and application of prevention in personal health services ; quality control and evaluation of preventive health services : task force reports / sponsored by John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health and American College of Preventive Medicine.
Date: 1976- Books
Theory, practice, and application of prevention in environmental health services : social determinants of human health task force reports / sponsored by the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
Date: 1976- Books
Medical tests sourcebook : basic consumer health information about medical tests, including periodic health exams, general screening tests, tests you can do at home, findings of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, X-ray and radiology tests, electrical tests, tests of blood and other body fluids and tissues, scope tests, lung tests, genetic tests, pregnancy tests, newborn screening tests, sexually transmitted disease tests, and computer aided diagnoses ; along with a section on paying for medical tests, a glossary, and resource listings / edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon.
Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
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Preventive medicine and hygiene / by Milton J. Rosenau; with chapters upon sewage and garbage, by George C. Whipple; vital statistics, by Cressy L. Wilbur; the prevention of mental diseases, by Thomas W. Salmon.
Rosenau, M. J. (Milton Joseph), 1869-1946.Date: 1913