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A Health Project in Newcastle is the concern of this programme. What it looks at is whether health can be considered in strictly clinical terms or whether health has to be seen in the context of a ...deprived social and economic environment. If the social context is important, then to what extent should a health project get concerned in campaign issues. This programme looks at activities that are purely self help like women's groups and an agoraphobic self help group; but it also looks at campaigns against dampness, unsafe windows and the need for a Community Centre. It illustrates the work of the health project and whether it can be successful when its objectives are broad based and contentious. The programme also looks at how full time workers on the Project recruit and involve volunteers. The fact that so many volunteers are women, is referred to, and the impact of this on the issues pursued. Could the volunteers develop the Project alone or is professional help essential? All these matters are illustrated in relation to the everyday work the the Health Project.
A Health Project in Newcastle is the concern of this programme. What it looks at is whether health can be considered in strictly clinical terms or whether health has to be seen in the context of a ...deprived social and economic environment. If the social context is important, then to what extent should a health project get concerned in campaign issues. This programme looks at activities that are purely self help like women's groups and an agoraphobic self help group; but it also looks at campaigns against dampness, unsafe windows and the need for a Community Centre. It illustrates the work of the health project and whether it can be successful when its objectives are broad based and contentious. The programme also looks at how full time workers on the Project recruit and involve volunteers. The fact that so many volunteers are women, is referred to, and the impact of this on the issues pursued. Could the volunteers develop the Project alone or is professional help essential? All these matters are illustrated in relation to the everyday work the the Health Project.
| Module code and title: | D355, Social policy and social welfare |
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| Item code: | D355; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 18-08-1984 |
| Published: | 1984 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:23:47 |
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| Producer: | Francis Sealey |
| Contributors: | Liz Allanson; Margaret Blake; Christopher Pollitt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Community health; Social work; Volunteers |
| Master spool number: | HOU4504 |
| Production number: | FOUD239T |
| Videofinder number: | 296 |
| Available to public: | no |
