Publications
People as Patients and Patients as People
1 February 1989
Despite much of the current discussion, Britain’s National Health Service has been an outstanding success during its 40 years of existence. Its present problems stem primarily…
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Medicines – a Guide for Industry
1 January 1989
The objectives of this booklet are twofold. First, to describe in simple terms the state of the art in undertaking economic studies to demonstrate the benefits…
Innovative Chemical Extensions: The Economic Basis of Pharmaceutical Progress
1 December 1988
This is an important paper based on original economic analyses of the new entrants to various pharmaceutical sub-markets. To use a sporting analogy, it indicates that…
Health Care in China
1 September 1988
In this report our visiting scholar. Yinong Shao, has produced a fascinating picture of the health services in China in 1988. It is particularly remarkable because…
Health Services in Europe: 1988
1 September 1988
The Office of Health Economics first drew attention to the fact that every country in Europe had some form of prepaid national health care scheme in…
Measuring Health: a Practical Approach
7 January 1988
In Britain, the tax-payer pays the lion’s share of the national bill for medicines through the tax-supported NHS. There can be no doubt that the supplier…
Economic Evaluation and Develop Medicines in the Development of Medicines
1 April 1988
In most countries the resources available for health care are increasingly stretched in the face of the competing demands for their use. Therefore health care policy…
HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom
1 January 1988
Since the first identification of the AIDS syndrome in Los Angeles in 1981 (and the description of the virus responsible- now termed HIV 1 -in 1983)…
Women’s Health Today
1 November 1987
In 1986, the Medical Women’s Federation approached the Office of Health Economics with the suggestion that an overview of women’s health would be timely. It was…