1st Edition

Bills of Health

By Richard Lawson Copyright 1997
288 Pages
by CRC Press

288 Pages
by CRC Press

Why is it that NHS workers are continually complaining that the service is underfunded while the Government claims that it is increasing NHS funding year on year in real terms? Is someone being economical with the truth or is there a deeper explanation? Richard Lawson shows that at least one fifth of the NHS clinical budget is spent on trying to cure illness caused by unemployment poverty bad... Read more
1. What makes people ill? 2. The impact of unemployment on health 3. Solutions to the problem of unemployment 4. The impact of poor housing on health 5. Solutions to the housing crisis 6. Poverty and deprivation 7. Impact of global environmental issues on health 8. Our strained relations with environmental agents 9. Pollution by air, water and land 10. Food and drugs 11. Work in progress 12. Bills of health

Biography

Richard Lawson