Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Tuberculosis
1 October 1998
The first Office of Health Economics (OHE) disease state booklet, written in 1962, was entitled ‘Progress against Tuberculosis’ and was published at a time of great…
Economic Aspects of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
1 July 1998
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is not a single disease entity but covers a complex group of different types of malignancy. They differ in the cells affected, their…
Prescribing, Budgets and Fundholding in General Practice
10 January 1997
In April 1991, a radical programme of public health care reform was introduced by the Conservative Government. The avowed intention of the programme was to improve…
Hospital Acquired Infection
8 January 1997
‘About one in ten patients in acute hospitals at any one time has an infection acquired after admission to hospitals’ (DH/PHLS, 1995, pi). This quotation, introducing…
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
10 January 1996
Thrombosis had been recognised as a disease since around 2000 BC, but the word thrombosis was first used by Claudius Galenos (130 – 200 AD). Pulmonary…
Diseases of the Prostate
1 September 1995
Cancer < 1 min read|01/09/1995 The majority of men possess little knowledge concerning the prostate gland. Information about the prostate, in particular the potential medical problems,…
Obesity
1 July 1994
’We are unanimous in our belief that obesity is a hazard to health and a detriment to well-being. It is common enough to constitute one of…
Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
1 March 1994
This report is concerned with people who persistently starve themselves (anorexia nervosa), as well as those who follow chaotic eating patterns (bulimia nervosa). Both conditions are…
Born Imperfect: The role of genetic disease
1 January 1993
The area of genetics in relation to hereditary disease has become an important aspect of medical practice with potentially far-reaching ramifications. We all inherit many features…