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Session 2000-2001
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Health Committee Publications

Health - Second Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19 March 2001.


CONTENTS


Terms of Reference

LIST OF WITNESSES

LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

LIST OF MEMORANDA REPORTED TO THE HOUSE BUT NOT PRINTED

SECOND REPORT

Introduction

What is Public Health?

What determines health?

The History of Public Health

Health Inequalities

Health Impact Assessments and Health Inequality Impact Assessments

Current Government Policy

Initiatives and initiative overload

The NHS Plan

Evidence-based policy

Public Health and the Individual

Engagement of communities and individuals

Health Promotion

Public Health in Primary Care

The Role of the GP

Health Visitors and Community Nurses

Community Pharmacy

Primary Care Data

Primary Care Groups and Trusts

Relations between Primary Care and Health Authorities

Public Health at the Intermediate Level

Role of the Health Authority

The Role of the Local Authority in Community Development and Public Health

Community development in action

Regeneration

Location of the Local Public Health Function

Partnerships between Health, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Sector

Local Strategic Partnerships

The role of the Director of Public Health

Powers of the DPH

What can be done to make the Director of Public Health more effective?

(a) The annual report

(b) Joint appointments

The Bidding Process

Schools and Public Health

Cross Government work on school health

School Nurses  

Obesity and Physical Activity

The Epidemic of Obesity

Performance Management

Health Action Zones

Communicable Disease Control

Consultant in Communicable Disease Control

Data Protection Law

Public Health at the Regional Level

The Location of the Public Health Function in Central Government

Status of the Minister for Public Health

Where should the Minister for Public Health be located and should public health be a matter for the DoH at all?

Cross-Government Working

CONCLUSION

ANNEX 1: TOBACCO AND PUBLIC HEALTH

ANNEX II: VIOLENCE

ANNEX III: MENTAL HEALTH

ANNEX IV: FLUORIDATION

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE REPORT

SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE REPORT

LIST OF REPORTS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE PUBLISHED DURING THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT

VOLUME II

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE


 
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