Publications

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Measuring the Social Benefits of Medicine

1 July 1983

There has been a spectacular explosion of therapeutic progress over the past 35 years. The consequent improvements in public health may seem self-evident. Why, then, is…

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Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries

1 July 1983

The Office of Health Economics has recently widened its scope to take a special interest in the health care problems of the Poor World, with particular…

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Second Pharmacological Revolution

1 July 1983

The published proceedings of the symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in September 1982 by the Office of Health Economics to mark the…

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Future for Pharmaceuticals: the Potential; the Pattern and the Problems

1 June 1983

Britain has very little to be proud of on the industrial front in the 1980s. Many of its traditional industries — the so-called ‘smokestack industries’ —…

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Issues in Development: a Guide

5 January 1983

Unlike the great majority of OHE publications, this paper was not researched and written ‘in-house’. It is a minimally edited translation of a study prepared in…

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Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from Their Medical Departments in the 1980s

1 February 1983

This paper was originally written for the benefit of a single pharmaceutical company. However the company agreed when it was commissioned that it should be made…

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Consumer Movement, Health, and the Pharmaceutical Industry

1 January 1983

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which was first published in 1776, Adam Smith placed special emphasis on the…

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Adverse Reactions and the Community

1 November 1982

Conference of Scottish Pharmacists, Aviemore, 21 November 1982. The aim is to do two things. First, to put the experience with benoxaprofen into a broader and…

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Ill in Europe

1 October 1982

People pay for some health care themselves out of income and savings. In Britain, out of a total expenditure on health care of all kinds of…