History of the Development of Health Care in the UK
Intro Look at the change from health care being a personal responsibility in the early 1920¡¦s to becoming the responsibility of the state and the emergence of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. ... Main Body Research into Health of the nation through Morris et al (1953) showed that the level of physical activity in an individual was directly related to the rate of coronary heart disease helping to introduce the need for the NHS. Baecke (1982) related the level higher amount of physical activity to a higher level of general health within the population.