Saving sick Britain : why we need the 'Health Society' / Martin Yuille and Bill Ollier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuille, Martin, author.

Ollier, W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain National Health Service.

Great Britain.

Medical policy--Great Britain.

Medical policy.

Public health--Great Britain.

Public health.

Preventive health services--Great Britain.

Preventive health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Britain is sick and it needs saving. Covid-19 has brought death, disruption and disorder. It has revealed fundamental failures in public policy and our approach to health. For years, the same failures have perpetuated a host of modern plagues - long-running deadly epidemics in diabetes, depression and heart disease. These plagues pose systemic risks to society itself.In this timely book, Yuille and Ollier envisage a society that always puts the health of citizens first: the 'Health Society'. The time for dithering and tinkering has passed. Prevention of disease is a task for all branches of government - not just the NHS but also for every workplace, employer, community and citizen. The 'Health Society' means working in radically new ways to extend our healthy lives and sustainably increase national prosperity.Saving sick Britain follows the science and lays down a challenge to us all: are we ready to make the change required to end these modern plagues? In answering the question the book helps steer the reader towards rethinking what both 'prevention' and 'health' mean in modern Britain.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good health and well-being.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

1 Words about words

2 The modern plagues

3 Sorrows in battalions

4 Your loss is my loss: we all lose

5 Deckchairs on the Titanic

Part II

6 The appliance of science

7 When things start to go wrong

8 Knowing the unknown

9 Risks that we can change

Part III

10 Biological relativity

11 Natural prevention

12 Health is what we need

Part IV

13 Thinking outside the box

14 The road to recovery

15 Community change

16 The tools for the job

17 Your health is my health

18 Postscript

Notes

Suggested reading

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-5229-0

1-5261-5230-4

OCLC:

1242736815