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Healthy Collaborations

WEBThe Health Education Council opted to place adverts for a free anti-smoking health education Superman Pack in children’s comics (below), sending similar adverts …

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Public figures and public health

WEBNonetheless, all are public figures that have in some way influenced public perceptions of public health. It takes little imagination to think how a President of the …

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Placing the Public in Public Health – the project book!

WEBTHE PROJECT BOOK IS OUT! Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012 is out and available in all good university bookshops, online, & …

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Public health exhibitions and the public: now and then

WEBLocal public health doctors, Medical Officers of Health, held exhibitions on public health issues such as clean air and food safety. In 1950, a Medical Officer of …

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Becoming emotional about public health

WEBThese collaborations completed, my time on Placing the Public in Public Health project will be rounded off with a conference themed around public health and …

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Placing the Public in Public Health Reading Group

WEBDealing with the ‘Don’t Knows’ in public opinion and public health surveys; Placing the Public in Public Health Reading Group – What we’re reading; Horses for …

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Vaccination Exhibition 1: Eradicating Disease

WEBThe great success story of vaccination in the twentieth century was the eradication of smallpox.Although other public health techniques such as isolation and …

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Dealing with the ‘Don’t Knows’ in public opinion and public health

WEBIn their 1943 survey into health education campaigns on venereal disease, eight percent of those surveyed claimed no knowledge of how venereal diseases were …

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Vaccinating Britain

WEBIt actively shaped public health priorities through its demands – although these did not always fit the “rational” and “scientific” aims and processes employed by …

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The myth of John Snow and the long shadow of nineteenth …

WEBFor instance, public health exhibitions held during the post-war period often harked back to the nineteenth century. Displays depicted the progress that had been …

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Public health posters: beyond parody

WEBAlthough public health communicators have used posters to put across their messages since the invention of the medium, the combination of images and words …

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Blog Posts Archives

WEBPlacing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012 is out and available in all good university bookshops, online, & to download Open-access. The book, like many of …

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A Birthday Card Competition for the National Survey Health and

WEBA Birthday Card Competition for the National Survey of Health and Development. The Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and …

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Vaccination Exhibition 2: Communication

WEBPublic health has used “propaganda” to convey its message for a long time. Public information films, posters, leaflets, presentations at local meetings: all of these …

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Vaccinations – ‘It’s more complicated than that’

WEBVaccinations – ‘It’s more complicated than that’ John Oliver tackled vaccination on his HBO series Last Week Tonight. British satirist John Oliver tackled …

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“Injections ‘While You Dance’”

WEBThe National Archives: MH 55/2212, Central Council for Health Education poster, c. 1959. As important as this political context was, perhaps the more intriguing …

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