Publications
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’ —…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Medicines and the Quality of Life
1 September 1982
Previous studies concerned with the benefits of modern medicines have concentrated mainly on their economic consequences (Wells NEJ 1980; Teeling-Smith G 1982). By contrast this paper…
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…