Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Cystic Fibrosis
1 March 1986
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetically determined disease in Britain. Each year about 400 infants are born with the disorder and of these probably…
Private Health Care
1 July 1985
This survey covers all major areas of health care in Britain and describes the activity of the private and voluntary sectors in each. The organisation of…
Back Pain
1 July 1985
Back pain is a symptom experienced by a large proportion of the population. It causes personal discomfort and national economic loss of a magnitude wholly misrepresented…
Measurement of Health
1 June 1985
Expenditure on health care is continuing to rise in all Western countries, both in total and as a percentage of gross national product (Table 1). This…
Childhood Vaccination: Current Controversies
1 July 1984
The historical roots of immunisation can probably be traced back to ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations and the observation that adults who survived an attack of…
Understanding the NHS in the 1980’s
1 May 1984
The National Health Service will spend around £17,000 million in the UK in 1984: it employs more than 1.2 million full-time and part-time staff. Thus as…
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Recent Trends, Future Prospects
1 October 1983
Therapeutic progress in recent decades has made a major contribution to reductions in mortality and has extended control to the symptoms of many chronic diseases. Thus…
Coronary Heart Disease: the Scope for Prevention
1 August 1982
One person in every four in England and Wales dies from coronary heart disease and at a minimum estimate the costs borne by the National Health…
Medicines, Health and the Poor World
1 April 1982
In 1972 the Office of Health Economics produced a paper entitled Medical Care in Developing Countries. Drawing on both information available within the pharmaceutical industry and…