Synopsis

Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment – from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This unit shows that in the early twentieth century, access to care was unequally divided. The rich could afford care; working men, women and children were helped by the state; others had to rely on their own resources.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 Access to healthcare, 1880–1930
2 Patterns of disease
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Health and wealth
3.3 Hygiene
3.4 Health and the working class
3.5 The health of mothers and children
3.6 Health education
4 Domestic care
5.1 Introduction
5.2 General practitioners
5.3 Irregular and unorthodox practitioners
5.4 Clinics and outpatient services
5.5 Nurses, district nurses and midwives
6 Hospital care
7.1 A review
7.2 The public take control
7.3 Childbirth
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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