David Werner and David Sanders
with Jason Weston, Steve Babb and Bill Rodriguez

The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

with an in-depth critique of Oral Rehydration Therapy

published by
Health Wrights, Workgroup for People’s Health and Rights
1997
ISBN: 0-9655585-2-5

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: The rise and fall of Primary Health Care

Part 2:Oral Dehydration Therapy – A solution to death from diarrhea?

Part 3: What really determines the Health of a Population?

Part 4Solutions that empower the Poor: Examples of Equity-oriented Initiatives

Appendix: The Role of UNICEF and WHO

Steve Iliffe & Jemw Munro, Editors

Healthy Choices
Future Options for the NHS

Lawerence & Wishart, London 1997 ISBN: 0 85315 851 7

Contents

1. Health Care and the Limits of the Market
Steve Iliffe & James Munro
2. The “New Mandarins” and the Monetarisation of the NHS”
Geof Rayner
3. Has trhe internal market been a success? Contradictions in competition
James Munro
4. Towards a Primary Care-Led NHS?
Steve Iliffe
5. Public Health, Health Promotion and Broader Health Strategy
Alison McCallum
6. Democracy, Accountability and Consumerism
David J Hunter & Stephen Harrison
7. Rationing in the “reformed” NHS
Allyson Pollock
8. Community Care: Past, Present and Future
Alan Walker
9. Future options for the NHS
James Munro & Steve Iliffe

Feasible Socialism
The National Health Service past, present and future

ISBN 0 900678 24X
Socialist Health Association 1994

“Despite being given free to the whole population according to need, by doctors and nurses with little idea of what anything cost, the NHS provided more cost-effective public service than any of its fee-paid or insurance-based international competitors. We discovered a cash-free economy which was both popular and effective.”

Contents

Part one: The past
Origins of the National Health Service
From all according to their ability, to all according to their need
Underprovision and oversale
Choking their mouths with power

Part two: The present
Consumerism, science, and the language of production
Primary care: potential wealth, actual poverty
Managed competition
Who cares?

Part three: The future
Professional accountability: who to, what for?
Purchasers, providers, and the future of clinical autonomy
Participative democracy
Feasible Socialism