Publications
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…
Hip Replacement in the NHS
1 March 1982
Of all forms of joint replacement operation, that for hips represents the most outstanding innovation. It is perhaps the major post-war surgical development and the key…
Costs and Benefits of Regulating New Product Development in the UK Pharmaceutical Industry
3 January 1982
This is the second in an occasional series of Pharmaceutical Industry Papers to be published by OHE. The first concerned prices; this second paper is concerned,…
Doctors, Nurses and Midwives in the NHS
1 November 1981
There have been substantial increases in all categories of professional manpower in the National Health Service since it was first established in 1949. This Briefing examines…
Accidents in childhood
1 September 1981
During the last 30 years the proportion of deaths occurring in childhood caused by accidents has risen from 21 to 30 per cent. This development is…
Price Comparisons of Identical Products in Japan, the United States and Europe
1 August 1981
The promotion of an environment in which the multinational research-based pharmaceutical industry can flourish has been and will continue to be reliant upon a well-informed and…
Sickness Absence – A Review
8 January 1981
Absence from work stems from a variety of sources including industrial action, lateness and ill-health. Of these the latter is by far the most significant cause…