Spring 2008: The Healthy Issue
 

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Editor: Tom Hampson, Books Editor: Hannah Jameson  

Fabian Review Vol 120, no 1
ISSN 1356 1812
£4.95

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This Spring's Healthy Issue of the Fabian Review makes a range of policy proposals and arguments and reveals fascinating new insights into the public's views on health in our YouGov poll, kindly supported by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

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syringe.jpgMMR and school
Children should not be allowed to start school if they have not had their vaccinations, according to Mary Creagh MP, who chairs Gordon Brown's Manifesto Group on public health. This suggestion is backed up by Sir Sandy Macara's proposal that vaccination should be linked to child benefit.

 

 

livelonger.jpgSwim for free
There is a great public appetite for making access to swimming pools and leisure centres free, according to Hannah Jameson, who outlines our full Health poll which shows that people do want a preventive health service, that they want its support rather than its nannying and - on the 60th anniversary of the NHS - people feel it is a truly British national institution.

 

 

bike.jpgA free bike on your 10th birthday
Louise Bamfield argues that cycling offers such great benefits to both the cyclist and wider society, that children should be given a voucher from government to buy a bike as a way of dramatically improving preventive public health.

 

 

 

alcohol.jpgBan alcohol ads in sport
At a time when our poll shows people are increasingly worried about teenage drinking, Dr Howard Stoate MP is outraged that drinks firms like Carling, Chang and Carlsberg are allowed to sponsor football teams and tournaments. A ban would receive widespread public support, he says.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also in this issue:
  • Tom Hampson asks Dawn Primarolo why the Government can't take the battle over healthy food to the food manufacturers and supermarkets.
  • Neil Goulbourne writes on how Labour can win on health.

  •  Sir Michael Marmot outlines how better joining up of Government could improve health equality. 

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