MEDICAL-CARE IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE WELFARE-STATE

Authors
Citation
Dg. Green, MEDICAL-CARE IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE WELFARE-STATE, Critical review, 7(4), 1993, pp. 479-495
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Social, Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
ISSN journal
08913811
Volume
7
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
479 - 495
Database
ISI
SICI code
0891-3811(1993)7:4<479:MIBBTW>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
In Britain before 1911, the vast majority of the population provided m edical care for themselves and had evolved a variety of schemes that c hecked the power of organized medicine and encouraged a steady improve ment in standards. The evidence is that at the end of the nineteenth c entury about 5-6 percent of the population relied on the poor law, 10- 15 percent on free care from charitable institutions, 75 percent on mu tual aid, and the remainder paid fees to private doctors.