Dr David Player, former director general of the Health Education Council and director of the Scottish Health Education Group, begins by discussing health education initiatives in Scotland in the 1970s, particularly campaigning against smoking, alcohol abuse and coronary artery disease, commenting on methods, particularly media campaigning. Both achievements and difficulties are reviewed. Attention then turns to the challenges of running the Health Education Council in England in the 1980s. The differences in opportunities and constraints are outlined, particularly the extent to which political sensitivities and powerful vested interests impeded initiatives in health promotion. Nevertheless, Dr Player reflects on what was achieved by the HEC in these years, detailing one or two principal initiatives, before discussing the urgent closure of the HEC in 1987 and the possible reasons for this.
Health Education Council (HEC) UK, Scottish Health Education Group (SCHEG), challenges and strategies of health education/health promotion, inequalities in UK health, political manipulation of health promotion, closure of the Health Education Council.
Health education, Health services administration, Science and state (science funding/policy),
vid-172, MSVA_032
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000033
Player, DavidBlythe, Max
Learning Resources
Original artefact: 1988 RADAR resource: 2017
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