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.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Photo story
The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
Catalogue
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Public health reports / by John Simon ; edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton.
Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.Date: 1887- Books
Community mental health services in Northern Europe : Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden / [Sylvan S Furman].
Furman, Sylvan S., 1911-1992.Date: [1965]
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Public health and social conditions : statistical memoranda and charts prepared in the Local Government Board relating to public health and social conditions.
Date: 1909
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Public health in England : the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Future Development of the Public Health Function.
Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into the Future Development of the Public Health Function.Date: 1988- Books
Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004 / authors: Hazel Green [and others].
Date: 2005