Abstract
THE disappearance of area health authorities in 1982 means major changes and new problems for health education services. Most significant will be the changes in scale of provision locally. The splitting or merging of existing services is a trend away from evolved unit structure. There will also be the problem of negotiating afresh budgets for health education in a financial climate which promises to be specially difficult at re-organisation. The fate of community medicine is another important factor. What happens to community medicine at reorganisation will have major influence on health education. One inevitable setback will be the severing of existing ties with local education authorities (LEAs). New services will not equate with LEA territories. What is at stake to some extent is established LEA/NHS collaboration in the field of schools' health education.
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