Politics of Health Group Publications

Concern about the threats to people’s health and wellbeing from the coalition government’s policies prompted PoHG’s steering group to call a meeting of supporters. This is the report from that meeting
 
Published June 2011

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Healthcare as if people mattered: towards truly equitable health services.
 
May 2008

(pdf/1065 KB)

A major critique of the state of health care in the UK
by a group of UK and international contributors.
 
Published October 2005

(pdf/1451 KB)

Paper 6: 'The Media: Agents Of Social Exclusion For People With a Mental Illness?'

A further contribution to UK Health Watch

Nimira Lalani,
formerly at the University of East London
&
Carlyle London,
West London Mental Health NHS Trust

Published March 2006

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Clare Bambra,
Debbie Fox,
Alex Scott-Samuel 
University of Liverpool

Politics of Health Group
Discussion Paper no. 1
June 2003

(pdf/900 KB)

The following shorter publications all appeared originally in Health Matters

Paper 2: 'The Politics of War and Health'

Paper 3: 'Health and the Politics of Punishment'

Paper 4: 'The Politics of Hypertension'

Paper 7: 'Healthy Science?'

Paper 8: 'Costs of Change'

Paper 9: 'Function Creeps?'

Paper 10: 'Ideas based policy'

Paper 11: 'The Road to Supercapitalism'

Paper 12: 'Unnatural Causes'

Paper 13: 'The NHS at 100!'

Paper 14: 'IB reform: the politics of ill health'

Paper 15: 'Choosing health for all:lessons from Europe'

Paper 16: 'A time for new beginnings'

Paper 17: 'General Election 2010'

The following are commentaries on other current health issues

1: 'Response to the draft consultation on NHS carbon reduction strategy'

2: 'Comments on Liverpool City's Health is Wealth Report'

3: 'Commission on the Social Determinants of Health'