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Public health : policy and politics / Rob Baggott.
Van Pelt Library RA395.G6 B345 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baggott, Rob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Public health.
- Medical care--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Medical care.
- Medical policy--Great Britain.
- Medical policy.
- Medical care--Political aspects.
- Public health--Political aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Public Health.
- United Kingdom.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health.
- United Kingdom.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 Analysing Public Health 1
- Ideologies 2
- Models of the Policy Process 6
- Risk and Expertise 10
- 2 The Historical Context of Public Health 15
- The Victorian Sanitary Revolution 18
- Ideas, Values and Ideologies 26
- Victorian Public Health: The Second Phase 31
- 3 Public Health in the Twentieth Century 37
- Public Health before the NHS 37
- Public Health and the NHS 45
- The New Public Health 49
- Explaining Historical Variations 56
- 4 Health Strategies 60
- The Health of the Nation Strategy for England 60
- International Strategies 73
- Local Strategies 77
- 5 Public Health and the NHS 85
- Public Health Medicine 85
- Public Health and the Commissioning Process 92
- Primary Care and Public Health 98
- The Blair Government's NHS Reforms and Public Health 107
- 6 Screening and Public Health 112
- Cancer Screening 112
- Cervical Cancer 114
- Breast Cancer 120
- Prostate and Bowel Cancer 128
- Genetic Screening 130
- 7 Health and the Environment 134
- Pollution and Depletion 135
- Anti-pollution Policy 140
- Sustainable Development 144
- Accident Prevention 155
- Health and Safety at Work 160
- 8 Food, Diet and Health 166
- Diet and Health 167
- Food Safety 181
- A Food Standards Agency 191
- 9 Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs 195
- Tobacco and Health 195
- Alcohol Policy 202
- Illicit Drugs 209
- 10 The Social and Economic Context of Public Health 221
- Inequalities and Inequities 221
- Health Inequalities in the UK 224
- Other Inequalities 232
- Inequities and Inequalities: The Policy Response 235
- Ideological Perspectives 248
- The Policy Process 250
- Experts, Trust and Risk 255
- Appendix The Acheson Report on Health Inequalities 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333676351
- 0333676491
- OCLC:
- 44089375
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