Article ID: CBB559175711

‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s (2020)

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A consensus developed around prevention in the early 1970s as a response to epidemiological studies that had highlighted smoking, diet and physical inactivity as risk factors for chronic disease, especially heart disease. This reaction was catalysed by the financial pressures the National Health Service (NHS) was experiencing, the 1974 reorganisation of the service and international awareness of the Lalonde report. Such widespread interest resulted in three different but contemporaneous reports on prevention in 1976 and 1977. All three emphasised, to varying degrees, personal responsibility and lifestyle as important tenets of prevention. This article focuses on Prevention and Health: Everybody’s Business, a 1976 discussion paper published by the four governments of the UK, to explore this preoccupation with disease prevention throughout the decade, and what it reveals about public health in Britain, political attitudes to the NHS and the changing relationship between citizenship and the welfare state.

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Authors & Contributors
Seaton, Andrew
Gorsky, Martin
Draper, Melvyn Lloyd
Davies, Stephen M.
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
Crane, Jennifer
Concepts
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and government
Health care
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Manchester (England)
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Wales
Canada
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Rockefeller Foundation
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