ABSTRACT
For a number of years, the ways in which social relationships in the home, at work, on the street and in the doctor's surgery affect health and well-being had been obscured from the public eye. Katy Gardner, a GP who has worked in a WWC, saw as an attempt to provide an open-access system for any woman to have a check-up and discuss her health with sympathetic health workers. She has pointed out that while studies which have costed care in the home have been unanimous that it is cheaper, there are methodological problems, such as comparing like with like, and calculating the costs of unpaid support. From 1968, when the Health Education Council (HEC) was created until it was reconstituted in 1987 under the Department of Health and Social Security(DHSS) as the Health Education Authority, the HEC was the focus of health education in Britain.
