Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Epilepsy: Towards Tomorrow
1 May 1991
Since the publication of the Office of Health Economics’ first booklet on epilepsy in 1971, advances in medical treatment, better seizure control and wider availability of…
Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease: Consensus or Controversy?
1 March 1991
The severe expression of cardiovascular and particularly coronary heart disease in the UK is a proper cause for concern. Analysis of its associations clearly shows the…
Dying with Dignity
1 February 1991
This report from the Office of Health Economics looks at a very important aspect of medical care which is too often ignored. As Jane Griffin points…
Patterns of Prescribing
1 January 1991
Outcomes, it is commonly said by general practitioners, are more difficult to measure in our discipline than those in hospital based specialties. This is true but…
Asthma
1 February 1990
It is fourteen years since the Office of Health Economics produced a paper on asthma (Studies of Current Health Problems No 57). During this time, asthma…
Osteoporosis and the risk of fracture
1 January 1990
Osteoporosis has been a long recognised disorder even if its causes have not. Research undertaken by Little (1973) found examples from as early as the sixth…
Mental Health in the 1990s: from Custody to Care?
1 December 1989
Mental distress or dysfunction serious enough to be regarded as illness is a common experience. In the United Kingdom four to five million people a year…
Diabetes: a Model for Health Care Management
10 January 1989
Since the Office of Health Economics first published a paper about diabetes 25 years ago a great deal has happened. For one thing diabetes mellitus has…
Measurement and Management in the NHS
1 June 1989
The late John Vaizey posed a challenging question about the ‘explosion’ of health care costs in the Western World. ‘Why was it seen as a problem’.…