| Description | British Psychological Society Professional Affairs Board response to White Paper Health of the Nation - a strategy for health in England.
Also includes correspondence, report, drafts, copy of article by David Marks in March 1994 Psychologist, minutes of the Health Psychology Working Party, responses to drafts of the reports wider discussion paper 'The Role of Psychology and Health Care in 2001 - A Manifesto' which not only contained the response to the Health of the Nation but considered wider issues concerning the structure of the British Psychological Society and a proposed separate body for Clinical and Health Psychology.
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| AdminHistory | Inspired by WHO targets for the year 2000 published in 1978, Health of the Nation outlined a framework for health policy between 1992 and 1997 and applied a strategic approach to population-wide health improvement. The White Paper set improvement targets in five areas – coronary heart disease and stroke, cancer, accidents, mental illness and HIV/AIDs and sexual health.
The BPS under the Professional Affairs Board had in late 1992 set up a Health Psychology Working Party to look into integrating health and promoting health psychology, it comprised Bernard Kat, David Marks, Geoff Lindsay and Paul Hitchings. Their report The Contribution of Psychology to ~Health and Health Care in 2001: A Manifesto which not included a response to the Health of the Nation but also proposed that the Society set up a separate College of Psychology focussing on Health psychology. This proposal which was not accepted by the Professional Affairs Board although the response section was sent and published. |
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