Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Health Care Dilemma or ‘Am I kranken, doctor?’
1 August 1975
For the past 25 years the problems of the National Health Service in Britain have been considered primarily in terms of a shortage of resources. This…
Multiple Sclerosis
1 May 1975
The unequal geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis is one of its most striking and potentially significant characteristics. The disease occurs with much greater frequency in temperate…
Vaccination
1 September 1974
During the past century the life expectancy at birth of the average Englishman has risen from 40 to around 70 years. Whereas it is likely that…
Work of Primary Medical Care
6 January 1974
The United Kingdom’s 25,000 family doctors, together with the nurses, midwives, health visitors, receptionists and others who make up the primary medical care team, deal with…
Mental Handicap
1 September 1973
Variations between people’s personalities, skills and abilities are a usual and, in many respects, valuable aspect of life. But a few individuals’ mental capacities in areas…
Skin Disorders
1 June 1973
The Oxford English Dictionary defìnes the skin as ‘the continuous flexible integument forming the usual external covering of any animal body; also the layers of which…
Rheumatism and Arthritis in Britain
1 March 1973
During the past Century the general improvement in living standards and the development of modem medicine have eliminated infectious disease as a major cause of mortality…
Medical Care in Developing Countries
1 November 1972
During the course of the past hundred years countries such as Britain have seen a very marked change in their patterns of morbidity and mortality. For…
Medicine and Society: the Changing Demands for Medical Care
1 October 1972
The control of the major health problems of the early part of the twentieth century represents a triumph for medical progress in the past twenty-five years.…