HEALTH EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY

Postal Publicity for Mental Health

ONE might not immediately associate postage stamps with the promotion of mental health ?although philately as a strain-relieving pastime is not without its therapeutic value?but stamps have long since acquired a wider significance than Sir Rowland Hill could ever have envisaged. They have become established as miniature advertising posters, exemplifying on world-wide correspondence an immense v...

The British Fight against Cancer: Publicity and Education, 1900–1948

This article explores the early history of cancer education in Britain, focusing on the period between 1900, when discussions about a public ‘crusade’ against cancer began in Britain, and the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. Arising from debates around the development of invasive operations for cervical cancer, the campaign had a cautious start because of important uncer...

Health Education and Health Promotion

Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity

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Proceedings and Publicity Chair

Researchers in many fields use dozens of different rapidly growing on-line knowledge sources, each with its own structure and access methods. Successful research often depends on a researcher's ability to discover connections among many different sources of information. The popularity of Google suggests that high-quality indexing would provide a uniform method of access, although it still leave...