Article ID: CBB434685865

Challenges and Opportunities in Documenting the Recent History of Public Health: The Health of Bristol after 1948 (2020)

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How do you find the sources to write the history of the health of a city, particularly for the late twentieth century and into the digital age? This article explores this challenge in the case of the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom during the period from the creation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, through the transfer of the public health function from local government to the NHS in 1974 and up until the return of public health back to local government in 2013. The aims of the article are to scope the extant paper and digital official and academic documentary sources for the history of public health in the city, to critically assess the availability and completeness of the sources and to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of integrating earlier paper records with more recent digital ones.

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Authors & Contributors
Davies, Stephen M.
Crane, Jennifer
Seaton, Andrew
Begley, Philip
Draper, Melvyn Lloyd
Wallis, Geoff
Concepts
Public health
Health care
Medicine and government
Medicine
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Bristol (England)
Manchester (England)
Wales
Scotland
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Rockefeller Foundation
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