Stories
- 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
Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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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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Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
Catalogue
- Books
Report of the Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice of the American Public Health Association in cooperation with the United States Public Health Service.
American Public Health Association. Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice.Date: 1923- Books
Humanising Public Health: A Comic Guide to Best Practice
- Archives and manuscripts
Hugh Leavis, Professor of Public Health Practice, School of Public Health, Harvard, [wrote "Recent Observations on the British National Health Service"]
Date: 1949Reference: PP/AWD/M/1/1Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Books
- Online
Municipal health department practice for the year 1923 : based upon surveys of the 100 largest cities in the United States / made by the United States Public Health Service in cooperation with the Committee on Administrative Practice, American Public Health Association.
United States. Public Health Service.Date: 1926- Books
Nutrition practices : a guide for public health administrators / [prepared by the Subcommittee on Nutrition Practices, Committee on Administrative Practice, American Public Health Assocoation].
American Public Health Association. Committee on Administrative Practice. Subcommittee on Nutrition Practices.Date: [1955], ©1955