Promoting the health of Europeans in a rapidly changing world: a historical study of the implementation of World Health Organisation policies by the Nursing and Midwifery Unit, European Regional Office, 1970-2003

A highly original study of a neglected area of healthcare history. The paper traces the important work undertaken by the European Nursing and Midwifery Unit of the WHO in the later twentieth century, and offers significant new insights into the dramatic changes that took place in attitudes to healthcare during this era.